Monsoons expected by next fortnight

KANPUR: After UPA's historic win, Sensex's superb rally, the next good news is from the skies- monsoons are expected to hit Indian shores by next fortnight.
This piece of news is sure to delight faces of all facing unrelenting heat this summer. Talking to TOI, Anirudh Dubey, weather scientist said, "Reports available with IMD(Indian Meteorological Department) say that positive formation of dark and heavy clouds is going on in Andaman and Nicobar areas.This is monsoon we know and its south-west branch is expected to onset at Kerala coast on June 1."
Monsoon breaks off into two parts - Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal branch of the SW Monsoon when it reaches the southernmost point of the Indian peninsula. Dubey added, "It is a summer monsoon which are pre-dominantly western oriented, has a tendency to ascend and produce huge amounts of rain."
The monsoon scaling above will reach West Bengal by June 8 or 9. It will further advance to Central UP and rainfall is expected in Kanpur, Lucknow and adjoining areas by June 17.
Dubey further said that a normal monsoon was expected in the country this year in continuation to trends of previous year.
The weather office regards rainfall to be nearly normal if it is in the range of +4 and -4 of long-term average. This normal forecast raises hope for good economics this year riding on a comfortable output of crops. Indian agriculture (which accounts for one-fourth of the GDP and employs 60 percent of man-force) is heavily dependent on the rains, especially kharif crops like rice, cotton, rice, pulses.
Dubey who recently attended a meeting of Weather-Watch Group in state capital said, predictions for the week ahead was that temperature would remain normal but humidity levels would rise up causing much discomfort to the denizens.
���This rise in moisture in air could adversely affect milk production of milch animals, cuccar-vits crops like(cucumber),��� added Dubey.