Good news for farm sector, India to get normal monsoon rains in 2018: IMD

The distribution of a positive signal to the farm sector and on the whole economy, the nation’s national weather forecaster – India Meteorological Department (IMD) – on the last Monday predicted ‘normal’ monsoon rains can fall in the timer of June-September period.

“Monsoon 2018 is likely to remain normal at 97 percent (with an error margin of +/-5 percent) of the long period average (LPA) for the four-month period from June to September”, stated by the IMD director general K J Ramesh.

The IMD arrives days after a similar forecast done by the private by the weather forecast agency Skymet Weather, which on 4^th April stated as the Monsoon 2018 was likely to remain normal at 100 percent (with an error margin of +/-5 percent).

This is for the long period average (LPA) of 887 mm for the four-month epoch from this June to September.

Monsoon is regarded as ‘normal’ if the average rainfall can be between 96-104 percent of the LPA. The average rainfall in ‘above normal’ monsoon can fall between 104-110 percent of the LPA at the same time this is anything beyond 110 percent of the LPA is well thought-out as the ‘excess’ anyway.

As per the IMD, there is 42 percent possibility of normal rainfall and 12 percent possibility of heavy rainfall – it means the country can witness some rainfall in the country.

Monsoon will hit the nation’s mainland in Kerala in the last Friday of the May which can be beginning from June.

Ramesh said about the nation that the country does not face lacking rainfall throughout monsoon season on this 2019.

The IMD, though, will be predicting the onset of monsoon in middle of this May.

The prediction can be on the distribution of rainfall and prediction on monthly can bring heavy rain on this July, August, and September that is declared by the IMD in early June.

This is the third uninterrupted year when the IMD forecasted the normal monsoon rains in the nation. India had 95 percent of the LPA rainfall on the last 2017 — as against the first forecast of 96 percent of the LPA (with an error margin of +/- 5 percent).