Southwest monsoon to hit Kerala on June 9: IMD

The South West monsoon is “very likely” to hit Kerala on June 9 following favourable conditions, the India Meteorological Department said on Tuesday “In view of the strengthening of cross equatorial flow and deepening of westerlies over South Arabian sea and development of feeble off-shore trough along Karnataka-Kerala coast, onset of (southwest) monsoon over Kerala is very likely by June 9,” IMD said in its mid-day bulletin.