Monsoon may come 10 days before: Rains will start in Kerala on May 21, the rest of the country will also get rain ahead of time

There is comforting news in the midst of the sweltering heat. According to the Meteorological Department, this year the monsoon can knock two weeks in advance. Rain may start in Kerala only on 20/21 May. Normally the monsoon arrives in the state only in the first week of June. After that it reaches the rest of the country.

According to experts, the recent meteorological changes in the Bay of Bengal indicate that an anticyclone area is forming in the Arabian Sea. Due to this monsoon can reach Kerala soon. Due to its effect, rain may occur in other parts of the western region as well.

Monsoon will come on time
IMD meteorologist Anand Kumar Das said that according to the information coming out from satellite images, there is every possibility of monsoon coming on time. In Kerala, it knocks on June 1. He said that there is a group of clouds near the equator, which is quite active. It is indicating that the monsoon activities will pick up speed soon.

At the same time, Mahesh Palawat of Skymet Weather Services said that it seems that the monsoon will start around its expected time. If an anti-cyclone is formed, there may be some delay in the onset.

70% of the country’s rain comes from Southwest Monsoon
Monsoon arrives in Kerala on June 1 and spreads across the country by mid-July. Due to this, 70 percent of the total rainfall in the country comes from the southwest monsoon. Half of the Rabi crops in India are dependent on this monsoon. Food prices have reached record highs due to the Ukraine war. In India, good rains, which are in all the states, produce good crops. This reduces the dependence on food imports in India.

inflation increased
The inflation rate of food items in the country had reached 7.7 percent in March 2022, which is the highest since November 2020. Vegetable prices have increased by 10.6 per cent and oil prices by 20.7 per cent. Wheat prices have also increased.

dependent on monsoon
Farmers who grow Kharif crops like rice, cotton, sugarcane, lentils, gram and oilseed crops depend on this monsoon. The Meteorological Department has expressed the possibility of normal monsoon in the country for the fourth consecutive year.