The Hindu : Hopes rise as the sky opens up

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Thursday, Jul 18, 2002

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Hopes rise as the sky opens up

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI July 17. The fortnight-long excruciating wait for the revival of the southwest monsoon finally got a break today with the sky opening up in many parts of the country under the influence of the low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast.

The Director-General of the India Meteorological Department, R.R. Kelkar, said that rainfall had been reported from almost all parts of the country — the east coast, the peninsula, the west coast and central India.

As regards Delhi and other parts of north India, which are yet to get even a drop of the monsoon shower even as it was well past the `normal' date for its arrival, he said rainfall in this region was also "imminent". He said the easterly winds, which facilitate the passage of the rain-bearing clouds to the region from the Bay, set in today replacing the hot westerly winds from Rajasthan. The monsoon currents, he said, had even reached up to Uttar Pradesh and it would not be long before they came over Delhi and other areas in the north. He, however, declined to set a time-frame. "It could begin to rain any time now."

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