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Monsoon tracker: heaviest rain over east India in next 24 hours
New Delhi: India's monsoon will spread across nearly two-fifths of the country in the next 24 hours, with the strongest activity over eastern India and the weakest over the northwest, according to…
The Story in Brief
New Delhi: India's monsoon will spread across nearly two-fifths of the country in the next 24 hours, with the strongest activity over eastern India and the weakest over the northwest, according to India Today's live monsoon tracker. The system is expected to bring intense downpours to several states, with cloud movement and rainfall predictions tracked hour by hour. The India Meteorological Department has not issued an official forecast for August 8, but the tracker suggests wide rain coverage across central and eastern regions. Western states are likely to see lighter activity, while the northeast continues to receive heavy showers.
The Indian Opinion
Headlines often reduce the monsoon to a single drama, but this tracker shows a patchwork: east drenched, northwest dry, and everything in between uncertain. The real story is not one forecast but the daily variation that farmers and city planners must read closely. Watch next week's rainfall totals, not today's map, to see if the deficits in the northwest actually close. If they don't, no amount of eastern deluge will save the kharif sowing that depends on it.
Source: businesstoday.in
This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above.
