Monsoon advances to food bowl states
India’s crucial monsoon rains on Monday advanced
to the food bowl states of Punjab and Haryana with a promise to bring
showers over the next four days, reducing the shortfall for the season.
“Monsoon has progressed into Haryana, Punjab and some parts of
Rajasthan,” Laxman Singh Rathore, Director General India Meteorological
Department (IMD), told in New Delhi.
The deficiency in rainfall for the season, which was as high as
31 per cent a couple of weeks back, was reduced to 25 per cent of the
50-year average of 89 cm on the back of the active monsoon.
In terms of percentage of the area of the country, 63 per cent
parts of the country had received deficient or scanty rainfall,
according to data released by IMD.
36 per cent area of the country received normal rainfall while one per cent region experienced excess rains.
Rathore said the monsoon currents would remain active for the next
four to five days and the entire country was expected to be covered
Wednesday.
Quantitatively, the country had received 173.9 mm rainfall as
against the normal 233.3 mm between June 1st and July 8th a deficiency
of 25 per cent.
On the El Nino phenomenon, one of the parameters known to affect
the monsoon, Rathore said the conditions were still neutral and he did
not see a significant increase this month.
Some reports had it that the El Nino conditions would develop by
the end of this month which could have an adverse effect on the monsoon.
Monsoon was 14 per cent below normal in the east and north east of
the country, 43 per cent below average in the north west, 31 per cent
lower in the south peninsula and 26 per cent below normal in central
India, the IMD said.
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