If the weather outside makes you chant "rain rain go away/come again some other day" because "we want to go outside and play", then the week ahead may just let you down. That’s because the weatherman asks you to brace for a few more wet days before the showers subside. If you are a resident of southern Bengal districts, that is.

According to forecasts of the Regional Meteorological Office in Calcutta, coastal districts of south Bengal – North and South 24 Parganas, East and West Midnapore – and the Odisha adjacent district of Jhargram are likely to receive widespread and heavy rains accompanied by thunder and lightning till Friday, September 15. Districts adjacent to those like Howrah, Hooghly and Calcutta, too, are likely to receive moderate to high rainfall during the period. The rainfall intensity during the time could vary between 7-11 cm, the Met office informed.

“The fresh spell of rains would come as an indirect effect of a low pressure system over Bay of Bengal close to the southern Odisha – northern Andhra Pradesh coast,” said Sanjib Banerjee, director of the Alipore Met office, “The system likely to develop into a low pressure area in the next 24 hours and move in a west-north westerly direction across Odisha. That would induce a fresh spell of rain in the southern Bengal districts, especially those near the coast on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.”

Banerjee added that the rains would subside, both in spread and intensity from Saturday onwards. “As far the North Bengal districts are concerned, the rains would begin easing off in the next 24 hours,” he informed and added there aren’t any alerts for fishermen venturing out into the sea in the next few days.

The shower spells would be sporadic and, at times, heavy although dark clouds would continue to cover the sky for most parts of the week. The silver lining in this grim forecast, of course, is that the temperature in the south Bengal districts is likely to slide by three degree Celsius.

While estimates till Monday showed southern Bengal remains rain deficient by 26 per cent, the upper reaches of the state has a surplus of about six per cent which is within normal range. “The predicted rains this week would help make up for the existing deficiency by a considerable extent,” an IMD official said.