Goa: No further advance of monsoon yet, says India meteorological department

PANAJI: There has been no further advance of the south-west monsoon over the west coast and Karnataka, the India meteorological department (IMD) said.
However, some areas in the state experienced rainfall on Thursday, keeping with the IMD weather warning for June 2 of lightning and winds gusting to 40kmph at isolated places over Goa.
The India meteorological department has said that there is a possibility of rain and thundershowers at scattered places over Goa on June 3 and 6 and at isolated places on June 4 and 5.
The southwest monsoon has advanced into some parts of northwest and the northeast Bay of Bengal and some parts of Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland, according to the India meteorological department .
Conditions are favourable for its further advance into some more parts of north Bay of Bengal, remaining parts of northeastern states and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during the next two to three days, the IMD said.
National Institute of Oceanography (retired) scientist and meteorologist M R Ramesh Kumar said, “It looks like monsoon has finally arrived after staying at Karwar from May 31. Hope Goa will receive plentiful rainfall due to the La Nina phenomenon in the eastern Pacific, but the negative Indian dipole can throw a spanner in the rainfall especially over the Peninsular India region.”
The monsoon rainfall is expected to be subdued in June this year, he said.