The monsoon season officially begins on June 1 and ends on September 30.
Monsoon rains in India were 10% above average in 2019 and the highest in 25 years as seasonal rainfall continued longer than expected, the weather department said on Monday. After 1994 (110% of LPA), rainfall received in 2019 (110 % of LPA) is the highest season rainfall received by the country as a whole, an IMD press release stated.
The monsoon season officially begins on June 1 and ends on September 30. It reaches Ganganagar in west Rajasthan, the last post for the monsoon in the country, on July 15 and starts retreating from September 1.
Extra June-September monsoon rainfall will help farmers expand areas under winter-sown crops such as wheat, rice rapeseed and chickpeas, improving their earning potential and helping revive tepid rural demand that has stung Indian economic growth.
A press release by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) stated that the 2019 southwest monsoon season comes to end with "above normal seasonal (June to September) rainfall." It added that the seasonal rainfall was 110% of its Long Period Average, which is 88 cm.
Elaborating on the regions that received rainfall, the release stated, "Out of 36 meteorological subdivisions, two subdivisions received large excess, 10 received excess and 19 subdivisions received normal monsoon rainfall. Out of 36 subdivisions, five subdivisions, however, received deficient rainfall, but deficiency was in the 20s except for Haryana, Delhi and Chandigarh where the deficiency was 42%. The 5 subdivisions accounted about 15% of the total area of the country. On average, about 20% of the area of the country receives deficient or scanty rainfall during the monsoon season."
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- Overall, the country has received 9% more rainfall than normal. Of the four meteorological divisions of the IMD, the east and northeast India and northwest India divisions have recorded rainfall deficiency of minus 13% and 3 % respectively.
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