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NEW DELHI: The four-month summertime (southwest) monsoon season ended connected Tuesday, with India reporting 8% much than mean rainfall. East and North-East India, however, reported a immense shortage of much than 20% and witnessed the second-lowest rainfall successful the rainy play since 1901.
The state arsenic a whole, connected the different hand, saw the fifth-highest rainfall this twelvemonth since 2001 and the 38th highest since 1901.“Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya saw deficient rainfall successful 3 of the 4 monsoon months. The lowest rainfall successful the monsoon play successful the portion was recorded successful 2013,” IMD main Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said. “Rainfall implicit eastbound and northeast India has been deficient successful galore years successful caller times.
There is simply a inclination that shows that rainfall implicit this portion has been decreasing since 2020.”Though the ‘above normal’ monsoon play was marked by galore disasters, including cloudbursts, landslides, floods and mudslides, particularly successful northwest India, the bully rains helped farmers summation their acreage of Kharif (summer sown) crops implicit not conscionable past twelvemonth but besides implicit the mean sown country of the season.The agriculture ministry’s latest information shows the state reported an wide acreage of 1,120 lakh hectares this Kharif season, which is 24 lakh hectares much than the mean acreage.
This raises hopes of grounds foodgrain output during the 2025-26 harvest year.The play technically ended connected Tuesday, but definite parts of the state volition proceed to study rainfall for a mates of much weeks, till the implicit withdrawal of the monsoon successful mid-Oct. The hold whitethorn hold the onset of northeast (winter) monsoon successful Peninsular India.Mohapatra said astir parts of the state are expected to person above-normal rainfall during the post-summer monsoon play (Oct to Dec). In Oct alone, the state is expected to person 15% much than mean rainfall. The forecast suggests the wintertime monsoon (Oct to Dec) rainfall implicit southbound Peninsular India, is astir apt to beryllium supra normal. The IMD main said maximum (day) temperatures successful Oct are apt to beryllium supra mean successful astir parts of east-northeast and northwest, whereas “normal to below-normal” maximum temperatures are expected successful different regions of India during the month.
