Precursor of normal monsoon this year
also – felicitous for Sirsa farmers.
18 April, 2012
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India's monsoon rains are likely to be within long-term averages in 2012, the weather office head said on Monday, reassuring farmers ahead of next week's official forecast from New Delhi.
Global weather experts will gather in Pune this week to assess the outlook for the overall south Asian monsoon at a meeting seen as a precursor to the official India prediction.
ARRIVAL in SIRSA
The monsoon season starts with the arrival on the Kerala coast on about June 1 and covers the whole country by mid-July. Its progress triggers planting of summer crops. In Sirsa normally the Monsoon rains knocks at the end of the 1st week of July, while monsoon enters Haryana from the Ambala side around 1st July. Pre-monsoon showers start in the 3rd or last week of June. Good rains in Ambala-Chandigrah-Patiala and foothills Shivaliks, the Morni hills, which is catchment area of Ghagger means plenty of water for irrigation in Sirsa and Hanumangarh via Ghagger system.
With the end of the La Nina weather pattern, associated with heavy rains in south Asia, and its opposite El Nino unlikely to start until August when much sowing is completed, neutral conditions are seen in India for the crucial first half of the season. "Normal rains are likely this year as the La Nina ended and has entered a neutral phase which is expected to continue till August," said D. R. Sikka, former director of the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.
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