<span style="color: #222222;">The Monsoon season has come to an end with a below normal showing this year as the country recorded a nine per cent deficit in rainfall.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Met department said, overall, the country received 91 per cent rain of the Long Period Average, which falls under the below normal category.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and northeastern states recorded the maximum deficiency.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This is the second year in a row that the Monsoon has ended with below normal rain.&nbsp;<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This year saw Kerala receiving an unprecedented rain during the Monsoon triggering one of the worst flooding in a century in which scores of people were killed.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The weather agency said, Monsoon may have officially withdrawn, but several southern states, Goa and Maharashtra are expected to receive rainfall this week.</span><br />
News On AIR | October 1, 2018 8:39 AM
Monsoon 2018 ends with 9% below normal rains