New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) While acknowledging that there was a “margin of error” in weather predictions, Minister of State for Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar said Wednesday that pre-monsoon showers would descend over northwest India, including the national capital, in the next two days.
Addressing newspersons here, Kumar said that monsoon rains could be expected in north and northwest India in the next four-five days.
“The conditions are now favourable for the advance of the southwest monsoon,” Kumar said, quoting a Met office report.
He said rain and thundershowers are expected over northwest India, including Punjab, Delhi and Haryana, in the “next 48 hours” and the monsoon would arrive in the next four-five days.
He also assured people that the dry spell due to the delayed monsoon would go soon.
Asked why monsoon predictions were going wrong, Kumar admitted that “there was a margin of error” in the forecasts.
Wednesday evening was cloudy and windy.
An India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said there is a possibility of light thundershowers later in the evening.
