The 2017 North-East monsoon, which would be best known for rearing a very severe cyclonic storm Ockhi in the Arabian Sea, may draw to a close by Monday, an India Met Department (IMD) update said on Friday.

Seasonal rainfall is likely to cease over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and adjoining parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka by Monday, the national forecaster said.

The season normally ends by December end, but an animated Bay of Bengal had produced an end-of-the-season low-pressure area earlier this month.

It had weakened into a trough closer to Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu and is still producing some rains.

Sub-divisions wise data

Most of the Met subdivisions in the South recorded ‘normal’ rainfall in IMD parlance (a deficit not exceeding 20 per cent), but Tamil Nadu (-10 per cent), Kerala (-7 per cent) and South Interior Karnataka (-4 per cent) face some shortfall.

Rayalaseema (+19 per cent), North Interior Karnataka (+7 per cent) and Telangana (no change) were gainers in that order, while Coastal Andhra Pradesh (-48 per cent) and Coastal Karnataka (-18 per cent) recorded huge deficits.

Lakshadweep (+8 per cent) too saw itself in the positive category, mainly due to rain dumped over the archipelago by Ockhi which had started intensifying in its neighbourhood.

The rainfall figures given above are for the season starting on October 10 and ending in December 31.

The rains have mostly dried up since the dawn of the New Year except in parts of Tamil Nadu.

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