India records above normal rainfall in 2020
India records above normal rainfall in 2020
BusinessToday.In
- Oct 6, 2020,
- Updated Oct 7, 2020 9:35 AM IST
- 1/6
All India monsoon seasonal rainfall during 1 June to 30 September 2020 has been 95.8 cm against the long period average of 88 cm based on data of 1961-2010. Long Period Average (LPA): Average rainfall during a 50-year period.
- 2/6
Considering the recent years since 1990, the seasonal rainfall this year was third highest, after 112 per cent of LPA in 1994 and 110 per cent of LPA in 2019.
- 3/6
Also, 2019 and 2020 are the two consecutive years with above normal monsoon rainfall, after 1958 (110 per cent of LPA) and 1959 (114 per cent of LPA).
- 4/6
Considering four broad homogenous regions of India, monsoon rain during 2020 has been 106 per cent, 84 per cent, 115 per cent & 129 per cent of LPA over East and North-East, North-West, Central and South India, respectively. The rains were excess over Central and South India, normal over East and North East India and deficient over North West India.
- 5/6
Out of 36 meteorological subdivisions, 2 subdivisions received large excess, 13 received excess and 16 subdivisions received normal monsoon rainfall during 2020, while only 5 subdivisions saw deficient rainfall.
- 6/6
The five subdivisions which got deficient rains were Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura (- 32 per cent), West Uttar Pradesh (-37 per cent), Uttarakhand (-20 per cent), Himachal Pradesh (- 26 per cent), Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh (-34 per cent).
Story: Niti Kiran
Design: Pragati Srivastava