India, June 16 -- Conditions were favourable for further advance of the southwest monsoon to parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and more areas of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh over the next two to three days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday.

The monsoon is likely to be in an active phase with heavy to very heavy rainfall and extremely heavy rain (>20 cm) at isolated places in south peninsular India and Konkan and Goa until June 16. It advanced into the remaining parts of the central Arabian Sea, Konkan, central Maharashtra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, north Arabian Sea, and Gujarat.

The nort...