The rainfall deficiency in June could be higher due to the sluggish pace of the monsoon and a weak El Niño, a phenomenon associated with heating of Pacific waters.
A
delay in the arrival of monsoon
has pushed the country’s rainfall deficiency in the first nine days
of June to 45 per cent, the India Meteorological Department (IMD)
said.
Monsoon
made an onset over Kerala on June 8, a week after its normal arrival
date. This has also delayed its arrival in different parts of the
country. The country received only 17.7 millimetres of rainfall as
against the normal precipitation of 32.4 millimetres, which comes to
around 45 per cent, it said.
The
rainfall
deficiency in June could be higher due to the sluggish pace of the
monsoon and a weak El Niño, a phenomenon associated with heating of
Pacific waters.
An
on-going cyclonic circulation in the Arabian Sea could slow down the
progress of monsoon over the next few days, it said. “A low
pressure area has formed over southeast Arabian Sea and Lakshadweep
area and east central Arabian Sea.
It
is very likely to concentrate into a depression during the next 48
hours over southeast and adjoining east central Arabian Sea. It is
very likely to move north-northwestwards and intensify further into a
cyclonic storm subsequently,” the IMD data said.
Of
the four meteorological divisions of the country, the deficiency was
66 per cent — the highest in the country — in central India that
covers the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa,
Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
Gujarat
and Kutch and Saurashtra sub-divisions of central India have clocked
a deficiency of 100 per cent, it said.
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