New Delhi, Thursday, September 6, The central state of Madhya Pradesh has received most of the inland rainfall during the period June 1 to September 5 this year. Madhya Pradesh received a total of 1731.4 mm of rain during this period. It is one of the few states where rainfall has been above the normal during this monsoon. The normal seasonal rainfall for the state of Madhya Pradesh is 1652.7 mm.
West Madhya Pradesh, this time played a significant role in raising the bar in the state rainfall figure. West Madhya Pradesh received 14 percent above the normal rainfall thus nullifying the 3 percent deficiency over east Madhya Pradesh, which received 876.3 mm of rain against the normal rainfall of 902.5 mm of rain.
Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan are the other two inland states where rainfall has been above normal this year. Chhattisgarh received 1040.4 mm of rain, which is 6 percent above the normal rain while Rajasthan received 821.9 mm of rain, which is 7 percent above the normal rainfall. In Rajasthan western areas received 233.7 mm rain against the normal rainfall of 234.5 mm while east Rajasthan got 588.2 mm of rain against the normal rainfall of 548.3 mm of rain.
In coastal states, Karnataka is leading the chart of most rains followed by Maharashtra this year till now. Karnataka received a total of 3626.7 mm of rain, highest in the country while Maharashtra received a total of 1765 mm of rain during this period.
The coastal areas of the Karnataka contributed a major pie of these rains. But, north and south interior Karnataka remained rain deficient by 24% and 17% respectively. In Maharashtra, coastal areas accounted for 2566.8 mm of rainfall, which is 4 below the normal coastal rainfall while Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada accounted rain deficiency of 22% and 29% respectively.
