After 10% deficit in June, IMD predicts normal rainfall in July

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MD Mohapatra, director general of the institute, said on Friday that India could receive more than 100 percent of its usual rainfall in July. However, some parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, Punjab, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu may experience a lack of rainfall.

Mohapatra said El Niño, a warm sea surface water phenomenon that affects rains during the Indian monsoon, is likely to emerge in July as the three-month mean sea surface temperature (SST) is expected to be 0.81°C during May. June and July. This was raised from 0.47°C during the period from April, May and June. The long-term average precipitation (LPA) for July is 280.4 mm, which is the highest precipitation per month in the season.

More than 100 percent of the rainfall is likely to make up for the 10 percent lack of precipitation in June, the first month of the southwest monsoon, which accounts for 76 percent of the country’s annual rainfall. The country, as a whole, experienced 148.6 mm of precipitation in June against the Long Period Average (LPA) of 165.3 mm, recording a deficit of 10 percent. Except for the northwest region, all other regions recorded a lack of precipitation.

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There is a significant improvement after the return of the monsoons with the rainfall deficit reaching 31 percent till June 23. The IMD forecast predicted “less than normal” rain in June for most of the country. From June 1 to 30, the East-Northeast meteorological division, which includes West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and other northeastern states, received 18 percent of the rain, but six states, including West Bengal, It received normal rain. According to meteorological classification.

The northwestern region recorded an excess of 42 percent in precipitation, with rain falling normally or excessively in all countries. Only within Uttar Pradesh, rains in the eastern region were lower than normal in June.

Maharashtra, Odisha and Goa in the central region are deficient, while in total, the region got 94 percent of the normal rainfall. deficient by only 6 percent. <لا> The southern peninsula has a 45 percent deficiency, but Tamil Nadu has reported a 5 percent rainfall excess. Similarly, Telangana reports a rainfall deficit of 50 percent and Andhra Pradesh of 31 percent.

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