The week between August 23 and 29 ended with a rainfall deficiency of 6 percent while the week between August 30 and September 5 saw rains reducing to some extent resulting in an overall deficiency of 7 percent. The month of August on the whole ended with a deficiency of 8 percent.
During the first few days of September, rainfall deficiency has been at 13 percent as good rains have remained limited to a few pockets only. Talking about the weeks between August 23 and 29, along with August 30 and September 5, area wise, there has not been much change in the area wise rains.
The first week saw 76 percent of the region getting normal rainfall while during the second week, 75 percent of the area saw normal rains. Meanwhile, the deficiency has been at -6 percent during the first week while the deficiency was at -18 percent during the second week which means that the first performed better than the first.
Region wise, after the deluge in Kerala during the beginning, this time, the first week saw 58 percent of deficiency while the second saw 86 percent deficiency wherein the weather almost remained dry. However, despite these two weeks performing poorly, season wise, Kerala continues to remain surplus by 33 percent.
Meanwhile, Rayalaseema continued to see massive deficiency like the rest of the season with the first week observing 43 percent deficiency while the second observing 46 percent deficiency.
Talking about Northwest India, both the weeks performed decently with the second week being a shade better than the first. However, West Rajasthan has remained a poor performer with the season’s deficiency being at -17 percent in the first week and increasing to -21 percent in the second week.
In Central India, the entire state of Maharashtra including all the four sub divisions are close to the normal levels. The state of Chhattisgarh has performed decently with overall deficiency being -1 percent. During the first week, saw large surplus with the second week witnessing some deficient figures. Gujarat on the other hand has been the worst performer with the deficiency being above 50 percent during both the weeks.
East and Northeast India had a mixed performance during the two weeks with West Bengal being poor during both the weeks while Bihar and Jharkhand had performed well. The second week has specially performed quite nicely. On the other hand, Northeast India continued to be a poor performer, despite floods in Nagaland and Assam.
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