Southwest monsoon season ends with India getting 7% excess rains

The southwest monsoon season comes to an end on Friday with the country receiving 7% excess showers, but the rice-growing states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand reported deficient rains having a direct impact on the farm output. Though the country as a whole has received excess rainfall, the distribution has been uneven with the desert state of Rajasthan reporting 36% more rains than normal and the north-east region, which witnesses copious showers, receiving deficit rainfall.

Tamil Nadu, which usually receives rains during the north-east monsoon season beginning October, received 477.3 mm rainfall, which was 47% excess of the normal of 323.6 mm for the south-west monsoon season.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the south-west monsoon season begins on June 1 and ends on September 30. The rainfall during October is recorded as post-monsoon rains.


The southwest monsoon entered the withdrawal phase on September 20 and as of Thursday has retreated entirely from Punjab, Chandigarh and Delhi, some parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat, the weather office said.

According to data shared by the IMD, Manipur received 543.2 mm rains between June 1 and September 29, which was 47% less than the long period average of 1,033 mm for the season.