India received normal rainfall: IMD

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 30

The four-month rainfall season from June to September officially ended today with the country receiving “normal” rainfall this year, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said.

Rain watch

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• 88% rainfall in East
• and Northeast India
• 96% Northwest
• 104% Central India
• 111% South Peninsula

In Northwest region

• Excess rainfall: Haryana,Chandigarh and Delhi
• Normal: Punjab
• Deficit: Western UP, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh

87cm rainfall recorded against Long Period Average (LPA) of 88 cm

“Quantitatively, the 2021 all-India monsoon seasonal rainfall has been 87 cm against the Long Period Average (LPA) of 88 cm of 1961-2010 (99 per cent of its LPA),” said IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra.

“The southwest monsoon seasonal rainfall for the country as a whole during June-September has been normal (96-106 per cent of the LPA),” he added.

This is for the third consecutive year that the country has recorded rainfall in the normal and above category. It was above normal in 2019 and 2020.

Meanwhile, monsoon withdrawal from some parts of Northwest is likely to begin from October 6.

The prolonged active spell has helped reduce the rain deficit. After deficient rains in August, Mohapatra had predicted “above normal” in September barring “large parts of the Northwest and Northeast”, which, he said, would get “below normal rains” in the last leg.

As the situation stands today, the Central India is four per cent in excess and South Peninsula 11 per cent.