Industry Odisha Bureau, May 22: Heralding a sigh of relief from the suffocating heatwave conditions sweeping across India currently, the satellite images released by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) today evince that the much-awaited annual south-west monsoon is inching fast and very likely to touch Kerala ahead of schedule.
The satellite images are being treated as a Manna from heaven by the general public presently sizzling in cauldron as well as by the Indian farmers.
The IMD-released satellite images show “massive monsoon clouds rapidly building up over the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal (BoB)” accelerating the pace of south-west monsoon so that it hits India early this year.
Reportedly, the IMD released today “INSAT-3DS thermal infrared satellite images showing dense cloud bands stretching across the southern Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and parts of the eastern Indian Ocean.”
Moreover, reports added that, “A dense cloud concentration is visible over southern Sri Lanka and the southeast Arabian Sea that is evident enough for the onset of the monsoon over Kerala since it is the southernmost Indian state that blows the conch signalling onset of annual monsoon in the country.”
Meteorologists also deem that the “extreme heatwave conditions over India could be termed as a blessing in disguise as winds filled with moisture from the Indian Ocean are being pulled up towards the Indian sub-continent or peninsula that assumes utmost signifance for the monsoon circulation.”
