More rain in store for Pune

You have little chance of moth-balling your rain gear. Not for some time to come at least. More rain is coming Pune’s way over the next three days.

If it was moisture-bearing south-easterly winds from the Bay of Bengal which resulted in a wet Sunday, a combination of two more factors will result in more rains, according to the city-based India Meteorological Department (IMD).

IMD director (weather forecasting) Medha Khole told DNA on Monday the formation of a large trough stretching from the Lakshadweep Islands to the south Konkan coast and a low pressure area (LPA) in the Bay of Bengal will contribute to rainfall in Pune and Maharashtra in the next three days.

Khole said the LPA that had formed in the Bay of Bengal on Monday was likely to cross the southern coast of Andhra Pradesh and northern coast of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, resulting in heavy rain in south Andhra and north Tamil Nadu in the next three days.

Khole said the southern states of Karnataka and Kerala will get scattered to fairly widespread rain after Tuesday and eastern Gujarat and eastern Rajasthan will also get scattered rains after Tuesday.

Khole said the present wet spell is not to be confused with the monsoon. “The monsoon had a late withdrawal on October 29, after which the effects of Cyclone Jal and the rain-bearing south-easterly winds from the Bay of Bengal have given us rains,” she said.