Southwest monsoon was vigorous over Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Vidarbha, Telangana and interior Karnataka for one or two days of the last week.

• IMD forecast that India will have 98% of its normal (long-period average) rainfall, with an error margin of 5% (+ or -).

Seasonal rainfall (June 1 to July 31, 2013)

• The cumulative seasonal rainfall during June 1 to July 31, 2013 for the country as a whole was 528.1mm which is 17% above normal rainfall of 452.4mm.

• Out of 36 meteorological sub-divisions, the rainfall was excess in eighteen sub-divisions, normal in eleven sub-divisions, and deficit in seven sub-divisions and scanty in zero sub-divisions and no rain in zero sub-division.

• In the country, 43% districts received excess and 27% districts received normal rainfall during southwest monsoon season so far. However, 23% districts received deficient and 7% districts received scanty rainfall and 0% districts received no rainfall.

Outlook for subsequent days from August 1-8, 2013

• Heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur at a few places over Odisha and at one or two places over Chhattisgarh. Heavy rainfall would occur at one or two places over Vidarbha, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura,

Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Saurashtra & Kutch and Konkan & Goa.

Agricultural activities

• Light rainfall received in Eastern regions of Uttar Pradesh state during past few days. Transplanting of rice has been completed up to 66%. In eastern U.P. about 80% transplanting of rice has been completed. Agricultural operations like transplanting of scented rice, hand weeding in transplanted/direct seeded rice, top dressing of nitrogen fertilizer, thinning in pigeon pea and sesame, fertilizer application in sugarcane and maize and plantation of fruit trees are in progress. Low intensity of khaira in rice crop was noticed.

• Heavy to very heavy rainfall received in the Kerala state during past few days. Agricultural operations like weeding, basins in coconut and areca nut fields, making proper drainage in all crops are in progress. Low intensity of mosaic in vegetables, leaf folder in paddy, red palm weevil, bud rot in coconut and pseudo stem weevil in banana were noticed. To Know more about Weather Report, visit – http://www.profitkrishna.com/

• Light to moderate amount of rainfall at many places northern Karnataka during past few days. Agricultural operations like sowing of pigeon pea, plant protection in early sown (June) pigeon pea, inter-cultivation and hand weeding in early sown pigeon pea, bajra crops in progress. Low intensity of sucking pests in green gram & onion and leaf minor in lime were noticed.

Source: INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT {IMD}

Southwest monsoon was active over east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

• IMD forecast that India will have 98% of its normal (long-period average) rainfall, with an error margin of 5% (+ or -).

Seasonal rainfall (June 1 to July 10, 2013)

• The cumulative seasonal rainfall during June 1 to July 10, 2013 for the country as a whole was 298.7mm which is 19% above normal rainfall of 251.6mm.

• Out of 36 meteorological sub-divisions, the rainfall was excess in twenty sub-divisions, normal in eleven sub-divisions, and deficit in five sub-divisions and scanty in zero sub-divisions and no rain in zero sub-division.

• In the country, 47% districts received excess and 27% districts received normal rainfall during southwest monsoon season so far. However, 20% districts received deficient and 6% districts received scanty rainfall and 0% districts received no rainfall.

Outlook for subsequent days from July 21-28, 2013

• Rainfall would occur at all over the country.

• Heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur at one or two places over west Madhya Pradesh during next 72hours and over east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and Saurashtra & Kutch and at a few places over Gujarat region.

• Heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur at one or two places over Konkan & Goa and coastal Karnataka. Weather Report

• Heavy rainfall would occur at one or two places over north-eastern states, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal &Sikkim and Kerala during next 72 hours; and over interior Karnataka, Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada.

• Heavy rainfall would occur at one or two places over Odisha, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, over Uttarakhand and east Rajasthan. Click here to know more about Weekly Weather Report.

Agricultural activities

• Scanty rainfall occurred in the Jharkhand state during past few days. Drought like situation prevailed in the some district of state. Rainfall is not adequate to undertake puddling and transplanting of rice. Agricultural operations like rice transplanting with irrigation, application of urea in spring planted sugarcane and earthing up in autumn planted sugarcane, weeding from rice nursery, sowing of vegetables like bhindi, brinjal, and plant protection measures against the pests of bhindi. Sowing of arhar,urd and kulthi in the upland and medium land areas are in progress. No pests and diseases were noticed.

• Light rainfall occurred in the Himachal Pradesh during past few days. Agricultural operations like transplanting of rice is almost completed in the entire region, hand weeding in the rice, maize and soybean crops are in progress. No pests and diseases were noticed.

• Light rainfall received in Punjab state during past few days. Agricultural operations like transplanting of basmati, irrigation in sugarcane and cotton crops are in progress. No pests and diseases were notice

Source: India Meteorological Department, {ICAR)

• Southwest monsoon was vigorous over Punjab and east Uttar Pradesh and active over Arunachal Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Bihar, west Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.
• IMD forecast that India will have 98% of its normal (long-period average) rainfall, with an error margin of 5% (+ or -).

Seasonal rainfall (March 1 to June 19, 2013)

Outlook for subsequent days from July 1-5, 2013

Heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur at a few places over east Uttar Pradesh, East Madhya Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam & Meghalay.

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Agricultural activities

Source From: INDIAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, ICAR