NEW DELHI: The Southwest monsoon made start over Kerala shore on Thurday following a delay of several days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
IMD on Tuesday updated its monsoon prediction and said the nation would get”standard to above normal” rain with”well distributed” showers at the June-September period.
“Quantitatively, the monsoon seasonal rain over the nation as a whole is very likely to be 101% of the Long Period Average (LPA) with a model error of ± 4 percent,” IMD manager overall Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said while discharging the next phase long range prediction.
At the very first phase prediction in mid-April, the IMD had predicted rain to be 98 percent of the LPA using a model error of ± 5 percent.
The LPA of monsoon rain over the nation for the interval 1961-2010 is 88 cm.
The 2021 monsoon is going to be the third successive year of good rain, and might lead to fresh record foodgrain output such as in 2019 and 2020.
Fairly widespread rain and thunderstorms with heavy rain was predicted in remote locations over Northeast India in June 8 to June 10.
Scattered rain and thunderstorms with isolated heavy falls probably within southern Peninsular India and Islands, in Addition to over Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and East, Central and West India.
Weather inclined to be sterile over remaining portions of the nation, stated that the IMD in its first morning report.
Sharing inputs on monsoon situation, the weather office saidthat the northern limit of southwest monsoon proceeds to pass by 5 level North and 72 degree East.
The Western Disturbance for a trough in middle and upper tropospheric westerlies using its own axis in 5.8 kilometers above mean sea level approximately across longitude 80 level east into the north of latitude 25 level north continues, it stated.
The weather also said the trough using its own axis in 3.1 km above mean sea level approximately across longitude 90 level east into the north of latitude 22 level north west continues.
The cyclonic flow over mid Pakistan and area, the IMD said, can also be extending around 1.5 km above mean sea level.
In addition, it stated that comparable weather conditions too persist within south Chhattisgarh and area in 0.9 kilometers above mean sea level.