Normal To Above Normal Rainfall Expected In Most Parts Of India During Monsoon Season: IMD

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that most parts of the country are likely to receive normal to above normal rainfall during the monsoon season this year.

"Southwest monsoon seasonal (June to September) rainfall over the country as a whole is most likely to be normal (96 to 104 per cent of Long Period Average (LPA))," a statement by the Ministry of Earth said on Tuesday (1 June).

The statement added that according to the IMD's National Weather Forecasting Centre, quantitatively, the monsoon seasonal (June to September) rainfall over the country as a whole is likely to be 101 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA) with a model error of ± 4 per cent.

The LPA of the season rainfall over the country as a whole for the period 1961-2010 is 88 cm, it added.

The southwest monsoon rainfall is most likely to be Normal over Northwest India (92-108 per cent) and South Peninsula (93-107 per cent), the statement said.

Seasonal rainfall is most likely to be below normal over North east India (<95 per cent) and above normal over Central India (>106 per cent ).

The rainfall over the monsoon core zone, which consists of most of the rainfed agriculture regions in the country is most likely to be Above Normal (>106 per cent of LPA), it said.

Further, the monsoon seasonal rainfall is likely to be well distributed spatially. Most parts of the country is expected to receive normal to above normal rainfall during the season.