The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday announced that the southwest monsoon is likely to set in over Kerala around May 26, with a model error of four days. Conditions are already favourable for its advance into parts of the south Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands within the next 24 hours, the weather bureau said.

In its latest press release, IMD highlighted that while the monsoon is progressing normally, large parts of northwest and central India will continue to reel under heat wave to severe heat wave conditions for the coming week.