Monsoon starts retreating from northeast & parts of Assam

GUWAHATI: The IMD on Saturday said the southwest monsoon has started withdrawing from the northeast, ending its over four-month trail that triggered unprecedented floods and landslides in the region.
It has retreated from the entire Meghalaya, and parts of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura.
The news has brought a huge relief to the flood-affected in Assam.Over 40,000 people were reeling under the third wave of floods in the state.
However, the IMD officials said there is a possibility of rain in parts of the northeast as monsoon withdraws from the region.
"The southwest monsoon has further fully withdrawn from Bihar, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, parts of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, some more parts of Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra," read an IMD statement on Saturday noon.
Even as the monsoon season is officially counted in the country from June 1 to September 30, the withdrawal of the southwest monsoon usually extends up to mid-October in the northeast. By the end of the official calendar this year, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura received deficient rainfall, whereas Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland experienced rainfall in the normal range.
"We are keeping a watch on the withdrawal of the monsoon from the remaining parts of the northeast. Now only light to moderate rain is expected due to easterly winds," a senior IMD official told TOI.
According to the last 10 years' data, the most delayed monsoon retreat from the northeast was recorded in 2020 when it fully withdrew from the region on October 28, while the earliest withdrawal was on October 5 in 2018.
With the beginning of the monsoon retreat, the IMD has also withdrawn warnings connected with adverse weather conditions. The Met office has only predicted the possibility of light rain at isolated places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya on Sunday. Also, light to moderate rain is very likely to occur at a few places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura in the next 24 hours, as per the IMD forecast.