1234 Kolkata: With a cloud column from the Bay of Bengal already hovering over the Kolkata sky, the wait for the monsoon could end in a day or two. The southwest monsoon, riding on the cyclonic circulation, is expected to reach the city by Wednesday or Thursday. On Monday, the city received scattered showers, even as some districts like Hooghly were lashed by some intense shower spells. The Met office expects the rain to pick up intensity in Kolkata by Tuesday afternoon."There is some movement of the monsoon flow over Odisha, and we hope it will onset in parts of Bengal in the next two days. In fact, the cloud over the Kolkata sky at present is from the Bay of Bengal, which is one of the signals that the monsoon is not very far away," said meteorologist HR Biswas, head of the weather forecast section at the Regional Meteorological Centre Kolkata.According to a special IMD bulletin, the latest meteorological analysis indicates favourable conditions for further advance of the SW monsoon over some parts of Gangetic West Bengal, remaining parts of Northwest Bay of Bengal, and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal in the next two to three days.