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)