The southwest monsoon arrived in Kerala on Thursday and its progress is being monitored by the weather agencies, officials said on Thursday according to the PTI.

 

The southwest monsoon brings rain across the Indian sub continent. It arrived in Kerala on Thursday, seven days later than the normal arrival date, an India Meteorological Department official said, according to the PTI.

 

The normal date for onset of monsoon in Maharashtra is June 10 and in Mumbai is June 11, said S G Kamble, the Mumbai head of IMD Regional Meteorological Centre, reported the PTI.

 

"The progress of the monsoon is being monitored. We will be able to talk about the monsoon onset over Maharashtra in the next two-three days," he said.

 

"The normal onset date for the monsoon over Mumbai is June 11. The normal onset date for the monsoon over Maharashtra is June 10 when it enters southern Konkan," he said.

 

Meteorological officials earlier said Cyclone 'Biparjoy' had been impacting the intensity of the monsoon and that its onset over Kerala would be "mild". The normal onset date for southwest monsoon over Kerala is June 1.

 

Meanwhile, with the Arabian Sea getting wild and stormy as the SouthWest Monsoon makes an entrance, the fishermen on the Kerala coast are left with no option but to stay ashore and look for treasure that the sea might throw up on to the sands.

On the eve of the trawling ban coming into force in the state's coastal waters, fishermen, who are already jobless due to Cyclone Biparjoy, were seen trying to find an alternate source of income through 'treasure hunting'.