In what sounded as a matter of relief from the heat wave gripping Odisha, the Indian Metrological Department (IMD) on Monday predicted that the State is likely to experience rains triggered by the southwest monsoon in first week of June.
IMD Regional Director Sarat Chandra Sahu said conditions for onset of the monsoon are favourable as understood from the model of formations over the Bay of Bengal. Quantity of rains would increase in the State after the first week of June, he further predicted.
The heat wave conditions accompanied by hot wind and humidity would prevail in the State till the end of this month, Sahu added.
The monsoon would hit the Kerala coast by May 30, the weather office.