Sigh of relief for West Bengal as monsoon to arrive within 24 hrs: IMD

Digital Desk: West Bengal will experience relief from the heat when the monsoon arrives in the next 24 hours. For the upcoming several days, West Bengal's northern regions should expect severe rain, according to the Alipore Meteorological Department. South Bengal may have sporadic rainfall as well.

In the upcoming days, the state's temperature is expected to decline, which will draw the heat wave out of Kolkata and other south Bengali cities. The temperature may decrease by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius in the districts of north Bengal during the next three days, according to the meteorological service.

According to the weather department, Sunday itself could see the beginning of heavy rainfall in the Cooch Behar and Alipurduar 1 district. However, according to the weather service, south Bengal may have to wait a little longer for a new monsoon. On Monday, though, sporadic rain is anticipated in the south of Bengal. Additionally, south Bengal's temperature is forecast to dip by 2 to 3 degrees.

Two days after it reached Kerala on June 8, the warning for the monsoon in Bengal arrived. On June 9, the IMD issued yellow alerts for five districts on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday for eight districts in the state. Over the next five days, these districts are likely to have heavy rain.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported on Sunday that the severe cyclonic storm Biparjoy had intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm over the east-central Arabian Sea and was likely to cross the Saurashtra-Kutch and adjacent Pakistani coasts as a "very severe cyclonic storm (VSCS)" around the afternoon of June 15.