New Delhi: The Met department has predicted that monsoon, which provides more than 70 per cent of annual rainfall, will be quite normal this year.
Meteorologists have said that the initial signals are positive and the worrisome El Nino weather phenomenon could remain ‘neutral'.
Several international Meteorological Organizations have said that there would be no scare from El Nino to this year's monsoon.
It said that El Nino, which frequently disrupts the monsoon, is also unlikely to recur in the months ahead.
Weather scientists said that due to growing impact of El Nino in past few years, monsoon rains were affected.
In 2014, monsoon revived after a disastrous start and made up for the deficit towards the ends.
What is El Nino
El Nino is an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific. It is one part of what's called the Southern Oscillation (commonly referred as ENSO). It is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (between approximately the International Date Line and 120°W), including off the Pacific coast of South America.
