Nagpur: Vidarbha has witnessed 31% below normal rainfall since the start of the Southwest Monsoon on June 1 this year. Out of eleven districts, only Buldhana (46%) and Washim (35%) received excess rainfall till June 19, whereas Akola (7%) received normal rainfall till date, revealed the meteorological data provided by a weather agency on Thursday.
Nagpur is witnessing -36% monsoon deficit till June 19.Till date, Nagpur reported 48 mm actual rainfall whereas the normal is 75.5 mm
After reaching Vidarbha four days earlier than the usual date of June 15, and swiftly covering South and West Vidarbha, the rain bearing system made no significant progress between June 14 to 19, extending the wait for the remaining Central and East Vidarbha districts. Vidarbha gets monsoon mainly when the weather system travels through Bay of Bengal.
This year, the Southwest Monsoon commenced from the Arabian Sea which caused early onset of monsoon in most parts of Maharashtra including South and West Vidarbha. After reaching Chandrapur and Amravati districts of Vidarbha, the system that came from Arabian Sea got subdued. Whereas, monsoon got no support from Bay of Bengal between June 12 and 19 in all over the country. Due to absence of any rain-bearing system from Bay of Bengal the Northern Limit of Southwest Monsoon settled in some parts of Vidarbha.
However, conditions are now favourable for further advancement of the monsoon into parts of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, coastal Andhra Pradesh, northwest Bay of Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand over the next three to four days, said India Meteorological Department (IMD). Vidarbha received 60.2 mm of rainfall between June 1 and 19 which is -31% deficit of the normal 87.1 mm rains.
Since June 1, Bhandara district has witnessed the highest shortfall of monsoon rains in Vidarbha with -80% Large Deficit (LD). Bhandara district, so far received just 17.3 mm rainfall against 85.1 mm normal rains. Like Bhandara, Gondia district which is also yet to witness the onset of monsoon, witnessed -77% shortfall of monsoon rains till June 19. Gondia received just 20.1 mm rainfall till date whereas the normal is 87.9 mm till June 19. Nagpur is also waiting for the onset of monsoon from the last seven days as the normal onset is June 15. Till date, Nagpur reported 48 mm actual rainfall whereas the normal is 75.5 mm.
Nagpur is witnessing a -36% monsoon deficit till June 19. Out of eleven districts in Vidarbha, 3 districts are witnessing Large Deficit of rainfall, whereas 5 districts are witnessing Deficit, 1 district received Normal rainfall, and 2 districts received Excess rainfall so far.
