For a third year in a row, India is expected to receive more than its usual quota of rain in September, a month that usually marks the retreat of the monsoon’s four-month sojourn over the country.
“The rainfall averaged over the country as a whole during the month of September 2022 is most likely to be above normal or greater than 9% of the Long Period Average (LPA),” the IMD said in its updated forecast. The LPA of rainfall over the country during September based on data of 1971-2020 is about 167.9 mm.
