Climatic conditions do not indicate a difficult monsoon in 2018, says IMD

IMD's latest summer update had indicated the favourable La Nina weather condition was likely to moderate till spring and start weakening thereafter

Though it is early to predict, senior officials from state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) and at private forecasting agency Skymet feel nothing in weather patterns till now indicates a difficult monsoon in India in 2018.

However, scientists also note, monsoon conditions do change quite fast. 

IMD’s latest summer update had indicated the favourable  La Niña weather condition was likely to moderate till spring and start weakening thereafter.  Some global models are indicating emergence of the dreaded El Niño weather phenomenon and this might have a bearing on some part of the four-month southwest monsoon season in India that starts from