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Informist, Tuesday, May 27, 2025

--IMD: India May 27 rainfall at 6.3 mm, 153% above normal 

--IMD: India Mar 1-May 27 rainfall at 155.0 mm, 28% above normal 

MUMBAI – India received 6.3 millimetres of rain Tuesday, 153% above the normal weighted average of 2.5 millimetres, according to data from the India Meteorological Department. Rainfall was above normal in three of the four homogenous regions of the country and below normal in one.

Rainfall in the east and northeast regions of the country was 1% above normal at 7.6 millimetres and a whopping 594% higher at 7.6 millimetres in central India. In the south peninsula, precipitation shot up 318% to 12.6 millimetres. Rainfall was below normal in the northwestern parts of the country at just 0.3 millimetres, 75% below the normal of 1.2 mm.

While presenting the outlook for temperatures and rainfall for June, India Meteorological Department Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said that in Mar-May, the pre-monsoon rainfall was above normal in India. Since Mar. 1, the country has received 155.0 millimetres of rainfall, 28% above the normal weighted average of 120.8 millimetres for the period, the data showed.

Though the monsoon arrived May 24, the weather department said rainfall during May will not be accounted in the southwest monsoon. The southwest monsoon hit Kerala Saturday, eight days before the normal onset date of Jun. 1. This is the earliest onset of the monsoon since 2009, when the monsoon had hit Kerala May 23.  End

Reported by J. Navya Sruthi

Edited by Rajeev Pai

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