Skymet Weather Report: North MP, UP receive moderate rain while Bihar receives light shower today

Various weather agencies including Skymet Weather had predicted normal Monsoon for the year 2018. The Southwest Monsoon made a timely onset but ended with slightly below normal rainfall at 95% of the long period average (LPA) for June.

Monsoon rainfall in July made a poor start leading to a cumulative deficiency of -9%. However, during the latter half of the month, rainfall performance was quite good for central and northern parts of the country. However, the two rainiest pockets of the country, West Coast and Northeast India saw very poor rains which resulted the pan-India deficiency for June and July to settle at -6%.