New Delhi: The coming next three to four days will see widespread rain across the central and north India with the cyclone Daye passing over the Odisha coast with devastating effects and then weakening into a deep depression to move towards the central and western regions of our country.

Most probably, this may be the last storm that hit the Indian coast before the ending of monsoon season on 20 September and the actual amount of rain that it brings will decide whether the monsoon this year was the below-normal range or was in the drought category. As for now, the countrywide seasonal rainfall deficit is 10%. And any figure below that will decide that it was a drought year.

“Cyclonic Storms are rather rare in September. We expect the system to make a difference to the monsoon deficit”, said Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, additional director-general at IMD.

The storm has resulted in boosting the monsoon that’s been poor till now in September, with a rainfall deficit during the month being 29%. The depression is as of now over the Chhattisgarh region and is expected to move towards a north-westward direction, going through Madhya Pradesh before makings its fall in the south Rajasthan-north Gujarat border.

As per the report by the Met department, the system is expected to cause heavy to very heavy rainfall over Chhattisgarh and east Madhya Pradesh regions till Saturday and over Vidarbha till Sunday. Even the north Konkan, north Madhya Maharashtra, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, and Gujarat may even get heavy to heavy rain on Saturday.

And from Saturday onwards, the system is being expected to go through a western disturbance resulting in the rain over northwest India, including Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, west UP, and Himachal Pradesh.

The Met department has issued warnings of “red alert” for the oncoming heavy rainfall over the region of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday and for Uttarakhand on Monday.

The cyclone Daye has already wreaked havoc with some losses without any report of life loss. The government has taken immediate measure to control the loss incurred and helped the people suffering due to the issue.

This year’s monsoon fared well for the rest of the country with little deficit report and the rainfall was reported to be normal in all. The southern region received the maximum rainfall and the Kerala state had to suffer a lot due to the heavy monsoon rainfalls without stopping for nearly 10 days resulting in loss of lives of more than 400.

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