New Delhi: Southwest monsoon seasonal rainfall over the country as a whole is most likely to be normal this year, the India Metrological Department predicted today.
According to the National Weather Forecasting Centre of the IMD, southwest 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) – which means the average rainfall recorded in the last ten years.
A monsoon season is considered ‘Normal’ when the average rainfall recorded is between 96 to 104 per cent of the LPA.
The monsoon seasonal (June to September) rainfall over the four homogeneous rainfall is most likely to be normal over Northwest India (92-108%) and South Peninsula (93-107%). Seasonal rainfall is most likely to be below normal over North East India (<95%) and above normal over Central India (>106%), the IMD added.
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