Kerala stares at a bleak monsoon season in 2026

After the terrible ongoing summertime season, Kerala, which is considered the gateway of the south-west monsoon to the country, is apt to witnesser a below-normal monsoon successful the forthcoming season, arsenic per the long-range forecast of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), expanding the hazard of drought.

However, the forecast of Skymet, India’s backstage upwind forecasting agency, has fixed a ray of anticipation for Kerala by predicting mean oregon above-normal rainfall successful the State, on with the westbound seashore of the state including the Konkan belt, though it has forecast a below-normal monsoon implicit the state arsenic a full this twelvemonth successful presumption of the evolving El Niño conditions.