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Tuesday, Jun 27, 2006
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Climate & Weather Rain counts, but not stats! Our Bureau
Thiruvananthapuram , June 26 Cumulative monsoon rain deficit, assessed as 24 per cent below normal during the period from June 1 to 21, has tossed up yet again the question of how pre-June rainfall during years of early onsets has come to be accounted. The season starts on June 1, but rains falling down right from the day of the early onset (the zero date being May 26 this year) invariably find their way into cumulative rainfall statistics. This is seldom officially acknowledged. The accounting debate has raged for so long as rainfall records have come to be aggregated at the official levels, a source in the Department of Science and Technology told Business Line on condition of anonymity. There's no sign of the anomaly being set right any time soon, he said. No wonder, June 1 to 7 this year showed an excess rainfall of 68 per cent. But the surplus had turned a deficit (three per cent below normal) during June 1-14, worsening to 24 per cent below normal during June 1-21. In between, the monsoon had gone into a weak phase from June 8, to revive only 12 days later.
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