The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted that India will receive below-normal monsoon rainfall in June, with the north and northwestern regions facing a severe heatwave.
“The average June rainfall for the country as a whole is most likely to be below normal, i.e., less than 92 percent of the Long Period Average (LPA),” the IMD stated in an update to its monsoon forecast.
Since the onset of the southwest monsoon in Kerala on May 30, India has experienced a 20 percent deficiency in rainfall, according to the IMD.
