IMD predicts this year's Monsoon to be nearly normal

The India Meteorological Department on Monday informed that the Monsoons this year are going to be nearly normal. It is expected that the Monsoon is likely to be 96% of the long period average. LPA is the average rainfall occurred between 1951 and 2000, which is 89 cm. Anything which comes between 90-95% of LPA is categorized under the below normal level. Earlier, Skymet too predicted the rains to be lesser than usual.