Delhi/Hyderabad, May 24 (Maxim News): The Southwest monsoon is moving rapidly. The southwest monsoon, which hit the Anadaman and Nicobar Islands on May 13, 2025, has recently extended to Kerala. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said that the southwest monsoon touched the Kerala coast on Saturday (May 24) morning. Usually, the southwest monsoon hits Kerala in the first week of June. But this year it touched the coast 8 days earlier.
This is the first time in 16 years that the monsoon has started in Kerala. The southwest monsoon is expected to spread to Telangana in the first week of June. With the arrival of the southwest monsoon, heavy rains are falling in the state of Kerala. The state government has become alert. It has alerted people in low-lying areas and coastal areas and directed the officials to make arrangements to shift them to rehabilitation centers.

The Meteorological Department has warned that there is a possibility of rain with lightning in Kerala and other southern states for the next 6 days. It said that gusty winds will blow at a speed of 40-50 kmph. The Meteorological Department has also revealed that there will be isolated thunderstorms in Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in the next five days.
Usually, the southwest monsoon starts in Kerala by June 1 every year and spreads across the country by July 8. It starts retreating from northwest India by September 17 and closes completely by October 15. But the IMD has estimated that the southwest monsoon will hit the Kerala coast earlier than June 1, i.e. on May 27, 2025. The southwest monsoon hit the Kerala coast on May 24, three days before the IMD estimate. (Maxim News)
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