India to see ‘below normal’ monsoon, says India Meteorological Department

India is staring astatine a ‘below normal’ southwest monsoon, the India Meteorological Department warned for the archetypal clip successful 11 years successful its April forecast. Between the monsoon months of June-September, India is apt to person lone 92% of the Long Period Average (LPA) of 87 cm this monsoon, M. Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences said astatine a property briefing connected Monday.

India past experienced reduced monsoon rainfall successful 2023, erstwhile the IMD had warned of “near normal” rainfall astatine 96% of the LPA. In 2015, the IMD’s informing of beneath mean rainfall -- astatine 93% of the LPA -- turned retired to beryllium an underestimate. Actual rainfall was recorded astatine 86% and it ended arsenic 1 of India’s worst drought years.