India, Aug. 11 -- The India Meteorological Department has forecast isolated 'heavy to very heavy rainfall' over Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in the next seven days, with isolated extremely heavy (>=21cm) showers over Uttarakhand on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

The weather department has made similar predictions for sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya from August 11-14.

The western end of the monsoon trough at mean sea level runs north of its normal position and the eastern end runs near the foothills of the Himalayas at mean sea level. The monsoon trough had temporarily shifted towards its normal position on Saturday.

"An upper air cyclonic circulation is lying over north coastal Andhra Pr...