NEW DELHI, MAY 29 (PTI): India Meteorological Department on Friday said that the North East region of India is likely to witness normal rainfall this monsoon season, but the remaining parts of the country may see below normal rainfall, the weather office said.
IMD said the June-September southwest monsoon seasonal rainfall over India is expected to be 90 per cent of the long-period average with a model error of 4 per cent.
The long-period average (LPA) of seasonal rainfall over the country as a whole, based on data from 1971 to 2020, is 87 cm. LPA refers to the rainfall recorded over a particular region for a given interval, such as a month or season, averaged over a long period of time, typically 30 to 50 years.
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology at the IMD, said in a statement, “The southwest monsoon seasonal rainfall over the monsoon core zone consisting of most of the rainfed agriculture areas in the country is most likely to be below normal (less than 94 pc of LPA).”
The average rainfall for the country as a whole in June is most likely to be below normal — less than 92 pc of the LPA, he said.
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