The southern peninsula has recorded a deficiency of 15 percent, while the northwest is staring at a deficiency of 19 percent, which is highest in the country.
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The current spell of rain has also helped in bringing down the regional deficiency to a large extent. “This will bring a good amount of rainfall till September 23”, IMD Director General Laxman Singh Rathore said.
Meanwhile, talking about the monsoon withdrawal, the IMD said the line of southwest monsoon continues to pass through Amritsar, Hisar, Ajmer and Barmer, which means withdrawal in Maharashtra will likely happen only towards the end of the season.
With the IMD predicting rainfall over north-west and eastern regions during the next few days, the overall deficiency in the monsoon is expected to decline further.
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It added that the including of these two systems will bring fairly more widespread rainfall over Northern part of India. “An off-shore trough and a cyclonic circulation in the Bay of Bengal will give rain in the region”, Skymet, a private weather forecasting agency said. For instance, the deficiency in east and west Uttar Pradesh stands at around 46% and 43% respectively. “This rainfall episode may be the last spell of monsoon rains”. While the deficiency in Punjab is 37 per cent, in Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, it is 36 per cent. In Marathwada, the deficiency is 35 per cent, central Maharashtra 28 per cent, Konkan and Goa 30 per cent and north interior Karnataka 23 per cent.
