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The southwest monsoon over the country as a whole is expected to be ‘normal’ this year, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted on Thursday. The June-September rainfall could be 99 per cent of the long-period average (LPA) with a margin error of 5 per cent, it said. Monsoon rainfall between 96-104 per cent of the LPA is considered to be ‘normal’.
The weather office on Thursday reduced the benchmark to define normal southwest monsoon rainfall to 868.6 mm from the previous 880.6 mm on the basis of availability of fresh data from its network of rain guages across the country. The
