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Monsoon covers entire NE region

By Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, June 11 � Monsoon has covered the entire NE region today. The northern limit of monsoon has passed through 20 degree North Latitude and 90 degree East Longitude, Dhubri and Gangtok.

Disclosing this, Deputy Director General of Meteorology (DDGM) of the Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) here H Pathak told this newspaper that an associated weather system has been observed with the arrival of monsoon as a trough of low pressure area running from North Eastern Rajasthan to the North Bay of Bengal, across UP, Bihar and Gangetic West Bengal.

Two associated cyclonic circulations were also observed � one over UP and adjoining areas, and, the other over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh, extending up to 0.9 km above the mean sea level.

Under the influence of these monsoon systems, rainfall has been forecast over almost all the areas of the NE region during the next 24 hours. A warning has also been issued stating that heavy rainfall would occur at isolated places over Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura during the same period, said the DDGM.

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