Some districts of South Marathwada and neighboring Madhya Maharashtra are prone to obtain beneath regular rainfall this 12 months throughout the monsoon season. This was said within the second part lengthy vary forecast launched by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday.
Quantitatively, the nation’s seasonal rainfall is anticipated to be 101 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA), which is 88 cm (1961–2010).
The districts that might be affected embrace Nanded, Latur, Osmanabad and Beed, Parbhani and Solapur and adjoining elements of Ahmednagar.
IMD Director General Mrityunjay Mohapatra stated, “Some interior parts of Maharashtra will receive below normal rainfall this season.”
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The LRF recommended that Vidarbha and Konkan might obtain heavy rains this month. However, the June rains is not going to be notably good over elements of Ahmednagar, Solapur, Latur and Nanded.
Due to its geographical location, Marathwada is without doubt one of the meteorological sub-divisions recording the bottom rainfall in Maharashtra. The regular rainfall recorded right here from June to September is round 668.8 mm.
For the final two years, Marathwada has recorded above-normal rainfall. IMD’s sub-divisional rainfall information exhibits that final 12 months, Marathwada ended with a surplus of 30 per cent of the LPA and remained within the ‘extra rainfall’ class. In 2019, the seasonal rainfall on this sub-division fell underneath the ‘regular rainfall’ class, though its complete seasonal rainfall was 12 per cent beneath regular.
The IMD chief stated that the rainfall this 12 months could be well-distributed after the onset over Maharashtra – the date of which remains to be unknown because the monsoon is but to hit the Kerala coast.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
