IMD raises monsoon forecast the day the rains hit Kerala coast

All regions except East and N-E May get normal rains this year; July will get more rains that August

As the southwest monsoon reached the Kerala coast on time, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded its forecast for the 2020 rains to 102 per cent of the long period average (LPA), from the previous 100 per cent in April. The forecast is with a model error of plus or minus 4 per cent.

The forecasts showed that barring the Northeast and eastern India, the rainfall will be towards the higher side of the ‘normal’.

Northwest India, which comprises states, such as Punjab, Haryana, UP, and Delhi, is projected to get “above normal” rainfall this year — 107 per cent