The southwest monsoon has been subdued over the region, said local Meteorological Department on Tuesday.
A Met official said, now mainly dry weather is expected in the region in the next two days. While the monsoon bid adieu the region by the mid of September every year, this time the downpour is expected to extend for few more days. light to moderate rains may occur in the region during the remaining time of this month, said the Met official.
With monsoon season nearing end, Punjab and Chandigarh have witnessed surplus rainfall in contrast to neighboring state of Haryana where several districts remained rainfall deficient.
According to the Meteorological Department, Chandigarh has received 825 mm rains against normal rains of 788 from June to September 17, with 37 mm surplus rainfall. The neighboring state of Punjab received 468.4 mm rains against normal of 457.7 mm with 2 percent surplus downpour so far.
Haryana witnessed rain deficit of 27 percent recording 320.4 mm rains against normal rains of 438.3 mm from June to September 17.
In Haryana, the districts namely Kurukshetra, Panipat, Rohtak, Panchkula, Jhajjar are badly hit due to poor monsoon rains. Various parts of Haryana have recorded rain deficit ranging from 9 percent to 62 percent.
Meteorological Department’s data shows the monsoon rainfall deficiency of 62 percent in Kurukshetra, 62 percent in Rohtak, 57 percent in Panipat, 40 percent in Panchkula, 32 percent in Fatehabad, 44 percent in Bhiwani, 44 percent in Jhajjar district of Haryana. Only Yamunanagar has witnessed surplus monsoon downpour this season. Recording 19 percent surplus rains, Yamunanagar have received 1022.5 mm rains against normal rainfall of 855.7 mm during the period.
In contrast to Haryana, the neighboring Punjab remained rainfall surplus. A rainfall surplus upto 107 percent was recorded in Punjab districts while very few remained monsoon deficient.
The districts with highly surplus rainfall are Faridkot with 107 percent, Muktsar with 90 percent, Moga with 68 percent, Bhatinda with 68 percent, Gurdaspur with 48 percent Kapurthala with 35 percent.
According to the Met Department, while most of the areas of Punjab received good rainfall, only few pockets have recorded rain deficit. And, these are Barnala, Ferozpur, Hoshiarpur, Sangrur, Mansa, Patiala and Mohali which have recorded rain deficit ranging from 11 to 46 percent. Sangrur recorded highest rain deficit receiving only 217.9 rains against normal rainfall of 401.4 from June to September 17.
This year, the monsoon had advanced in the region on June 15, two weeks earlier than normal onset date.
last year, the monsoon had reached the region in the first week of July. In 2012, Punjab and Haryana had recorded a rain deficit of 46 percent and 40 percent respectively. And, Chandigarh-the joint capital city of Punjab and Haryana had recorded a monsoon rainfall deficit of 10 percent.
On the whole, Haryana had last year, received 277.8 mm recording a deficit of 40 percent from normal monsoon rains of 460.8 mm while the neighboring state of Punjab had recorded 266 mm rains recording a departure of 46 percent from the normal rains of 496.3 mm every monsoon.