Pune received only 34.5 mm rainfall this month Pune city has received only 34.5 mm rainfall till Wednesday this month. The average rainfall for the city in June is 132.7 mm. However,the Met department said that conditions should improve in the first week of July and the rainfall should make up for the deficient monsoon in June. The rainfall will continue to be scattered over the next two days. The trough extending from Maharashtra coast to Kerala is weak and the synoptic system is not expected to yield much rainfall, said Medha Khole,deputy director-general,IMD. However,she said the northeastern parts of the country are receiving good ranfall,with Cherrapunji recording 77 mm rainfall. In the west,Konkan,Goa and coastal Karnataka have been receiving rainfall,but in Maharashtra,the situation is different. Met officials said the conditions are not favourable for revival of the monsoon as the surface temperature in western Arabian sea is less than normal and systems are not conducive for the formation of low pressure areas over the Bay of Bengal. A revival in the western and the eastern branches of the monsoon can be expected only in the first week of July,they said. An assessment for Maharashtra shows that the rainfall has been a mere 13 per cent this year. Last year,it was 15 per cent. The all-India scenario,too,is dismal with June recording only 22 per cent rainfall. We have forecast 98 per cent rainfall in July. August should be neutral with a slight El Nino effect, said Khole. At present,the weather systems do not show any El Nino effect. Well have to wait and watch, she said.
