Tuesday, October 01, 2024

FINAL MONSOON REPORT 2024

 

A weak start this monsoon season with June having an 11% deficit soon turned into an above normal July (+9%) and a still better August (+16%), finishing with September at 11% above normal. Overall the monsoon this year was almost 8% above normal. As seen in the chart below the red line shows the current year monsoon status and where it lies on the monsoon distribution curve since 1901. A total of 44 years have seen more rainfall than the current year since 1901.

In this century, 2013 (937.2 mm), 2007 (942 mm), 2020 (958.5 mm), 2019 (971.8 mm), were years with monsoon rainfall higher than 2024. 

 

X-axis represents years with monsoon rainfall starting from highest of 1124.2mm in 1917 (extreme left) to the lowest of 697.4 mm in 1972 (extreme right).





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