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Monsoon ends with 13% less rain, withdrawal continues
India's monsoon season has ended with 13% below-normal rainfall, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced officially on Wednesday, 30 September. The withdrawal is still underway, leaving some regions with rain even as it departs.
On 1 October, heavy rain is very likely in parts of Kerala, south interior Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal. Scattered rain is expected in coastal Karnataka, Lakshadweep, and northeast states including Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura. A low-pressure area over north Myanmar and nearby areas is driving the rain in the northeast.
Most of north and west India, including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, will remain dry. The monsoon withdrawal line currently runs from Gurdaspur through Chandigarh, Muzaffarnagar, Aligarh, Dholpur, Udaipur, Deesa to Nalia in Gujarat. Conditions may become favourable for further withdrawal over the next two to three days.
Indian Opinion Analysis
A 13% deficit raises concerns for rain-fed agriculture, especially in regions that depend on the monsoon for kharif crops. The IMD has declared the season closed, but the slow withdrawal means pockets of south India and the northeast remain vulnerable to flooding and waterlogging, as Bengaluru saw in the past 24 hours with 10 cm at Khibbanahalli in Tumakuru. The low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal may keep the northeast wet as it weakens. The next two to three days will show whether the withdrawal line advances across the remaining states as forecast.
Source: aajtak.in
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