{"id":322304,"date":"2020-04-15T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322304"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:57:09","slug":"imd-predicts-normal-monsoon-in-india-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/imd-predicts-normal-monsoon-in-india-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"IMD predicts normal monsoon in India this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322307 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/monsoon-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/monsoon-5.jpg 470w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/monsoon-5-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/monsoon-5-324x235.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/>India is likely to have a normal monsoon this year, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday in its forecast for the four-month monsoon season in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During a press briefing, Madhavan Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) said, \u201cThis year we will have a normal monsoon. Quantitatively the monsoon rainfall, during the monsoon season 2020, is expected to be 100% of its long period average with an error of +5 or -5% due to model error.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis year monsoon will be normal,&#8221; the IMD said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The date for the onset of monsoon in Kerala, which is June 1, will remain the same.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is likely to have a normal monsoon this year, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday in its forecast for the four-month monsoon season in the country. During a press briefing, Madhavan Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) said, \u201cThis year we will have a normal monsoon. Quantitatively the monsoon rainfall, during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322308,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322304\/revisions\/322308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}