Monsoon: Monsoon misses date with UP, postpones postponement for city

Lucknow: With the southwest monsoon not meeting its date (June 18) with UP, its arrival in Lucknow is also likely to be postponed. This means that the scorching heat will continue for several more days. According to the Indian Meteorological Department, the normal date is The monsoon arrives in Kerala (India) on June 1, on June 18 and in Lucknow on June 23. This year, the monsoon arrived in India two days earlier but then slowed down. So far it has covered South India, Maharashtra and Northeast India. Conditions are favorable for further advances into further parts of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, coastal Andhra Pradesh, some parts of Gangetic West Bengal, remaining parts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and some parts of Bihar and Jharkhand during the next 2-3 days. The arrival of monsoon in UP will take place after covering Bihar. Meanwhile, the heat wave continued in the city on Wednesday with the maximum temperature reaching 43.1 degrees Celsius, 5.1 units above normal, and the minimum temperature reaching 30.6 degrees Celsius, 3.6 degrees above normal. Skies will be mostly clear on Thursday and Friday, when strong surface winds (speed 20-30 km/h) are also likely to lash the city. The maximum and minimum temperatures will be around 43 and 31 degrees Celsius respectively.

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