THE INDIA Meteorological Department (IMD) announced that the onset of the southwest monsoon over Kerala is expected on May 31. The forecast comes with a model error deviation of four days.
This was stated in the Met department’s report on the ‘Southwest monsoon onset date over Kerala’,
The normal date for the monsoon onset over the southern state is June 1, which marks the commencement of the four-month-long southwest monsoon season over the country.
The IMD will be issuing the second stage long range forecast (LRF) towards the end of this month that will specify the rainfall distribution over the homogeneous regions of the country.
Met department had forecast a normal monsoon over the country as a whole, with the season’s rainfall pitched at 98 percent of the long period average, which is 88cm.
