Rain will be copious, says IMD

June 15, 2013 10:11

In what should come as a big relief to policymakers who are grappling with a slowdown of the economy, monsoon forecast models of the India Meteorological Department have indicated that rainfall during the current monsoon would continue to be copious in the coming months, with a fairly uniform distribution across the country.

Releasing an update of the long range forecast, IMD Director-General L S Rathore said the re-run of the models with fresh data obtained since the last forecast of April had reconfirmed the prediction that the country could get 98 per cent of the long period average for the season as a whole.

In addition, they have shown that rainfall in July would be 101 per cent of the normal and that for August 96 per cent of the normal.

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