Monsoon report

Progress of southwest monsoon has been satisfactory and the country has so far received nine per cent above normal rain. Met Department Director General Ajit Tyagi told AIR that monsoon will further intensify over central India during the coming week.

The monsoon has advanced over north-east and eastern parts of the country. And as of now, the monsoon has covered entire north-east, eastern India, central India and Southern peninsula, the monsoon rainfall has been nine percent above normal, country as a whole. But for north-east India, rest of the division i.e. North Western India, Central India and Southern peninsula also have received 15 to 20 percent above normal rainfall.

In Delhi, rain received this month was more than what the region got in the whole of June in the last three years.

Rain and thunder showers continued to lash eastern Uttar Pradesh. Quoting Met Department our correspondent reports that Jhansi, Gorakhpur, Hamirpur, Nazimabad, Kanpur, Varanasi, Basti and Lucknow experienced heavy rain.

Heavy to moderate rainfall has occurred in various divisions of the state during past 24 hours. More than five centimetres of rainfall has occurred in many central and eastern districts. The underground water has been recharged in parched Bundelkhand and Vidhyachal regions in the very first rainfall of monsoon. The farmers are now busy in agricultural activities.