Monsoon 2024: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday said that the 2024 monsoon season concluded with 7.6 per cent more rainfall than normal. The weather department said that Rajasthan, Gujarat, western Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh experienced excess rainfall during the 2024 monsoon season.
The IMD had predicted above-normal rainfall (106 per cent of the long-period average) for the monsoon season this year. It also accurately forecasts below-normal monsoon rainfall for northeast India, normal rainfall for the northwest, and above-normal rainfall for central and southern peninsular regions.
India recorded 934.8 mm rainfall
Earlier, the IMD had said that the 2024 southwest monsoon season officially ended on Monday (September 30), with India recording 934.8 mm rainfall, 108 per cent of the long-period average and the highest since 2020.
Central India received 19 per cent more rainfall than the long-period average for the region, the southern peninsula recorded 14 per cent more than normal, and northwest India saw 7 per cent more than usual. East and northeast India registered 14 per cent less rainfall than normal, the data showed.
In the 2023 monsoon season, India recorded 820 mm of rainfall, which was 94.4 per cent of the long-period average of 868.6 mm. The country logged 925 mm of rainfall, 106 per cent of the long-period average, in 2022; 870 mm in 2021; and 958 mm in 2020.
The monsoon is critical for India's agricultural sector, with 52 per cent of the net cultivated area dependent on it. This primary rain-bearing system is also essential for replenishing reservoirs that provide drinking water and support power generation across the country.
(With PTI inputs)
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