Deficit Rainfall

Subject – Geography

Context – Monsoon 2021: A month before season’s end, over one-third of districts deficit in rainfall.

Concept –

When rainfall is 20-59 per cent below the normal average, it is termed ‘deficit’, according to the IMD.
When it is 60 per cent below normal, it is termed as ‘large deficit’.
Eleven of India’s 37 states / Union territories (UT) have reported that more than 50 per cent of their districts have been either deficit or large deficit in rainfall by August 25. Some 234 of the 694 districts in India have reported deficit rainfall while 16 are in the large deficient category.
All the 33 districts in Gujarat have reported deficit or large deficit rainfall.