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- Recently the IMD (Indian Meteorological Department) has predicted that India will likely have a normal monsoon in 2020, with a chance of ‘above normal’ rain in August and September.
- It has also officially redefined the definition of what constitutes ‘normal’ rainfall and reduced it by 1 cm to 88 cm from 89 cm.
- The June-September rainfall accounts for 75% of the country’s annual rainfall.
- The IMD issues a two-stage forecast: the first in April, followed by a more detailed one in the last week of May, which will also illustrate how the monsoon will spread over the country.
- IMD relies on supercomputers, mathematically simulating the physics of the ocean and the atmosphere.
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