Monsoon reaches Kerala eight days sooner than common date, earliest arrival since 2009

IMD acknowledged, “Southwest Monsoon has set in over Kerala today, the 24th May, 2025, against the normal date of 1st June. Thus, southwest monsoon has set in over Kerala 8 days before the normal date.”

Thiruvananthapuram:

The southwest monsoon reached Kerala on Saturday (May 24), marking its earliest onset over the Indian mainland since 2009 when it began on May 23, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) acknowledged. Normally, the southwest monsoon makes its onset over Kerala by June 1 and covers your full nation by July 8. It begins retreating from northwest India spherical September 17 and withdraws absolutely by October 15.

The monsoon set in over the southern state on May 30 remaining 12 months; June 8 in 2023; May 29 in 2022; June 3 in 2021; June 1 in 2020; June 8 in 2019; and May 29 in 2018, IMD data confirmed.

According to meteorologists, there isn’t any such factor as a direct relationship between the onset date and the entire rainfall over the nation all through the season.

The monsoon arriving early or late in Kerala does not suggest it ought to cowl totally different elements of the nation accordingly. It is characterised by large-scale variabilities and world, regional and native choices, an official acknowledged.

The IMD in April forecast above-normal cumulative rainfall inside the 2025 monsoon season, ruling out the chance of El Nino circumstances, which are associated to below-normal rainfall inside the Indian subcontinent.

Rain forecast for weekend in Delhi The nationwide capital recorded a minimal temperature of 28.4 ranges Celsius, 1.7 notches below the season’s widespread, in keeping with the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The IMD has forecast thunderstorm with rain for Saturday and Sunday, with the utmost temperature anticipated to settle spherical 37 ranges Celsius.

The relative humidity was recorded at 62 per cent at 8:30 am on Saturday. The air top quality was “moderate” at 9 am, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) finding out of 120, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data confirmed. According to the CPCB, an AQI between zero and 50 is taken into consideration ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 and 200 ‘cheap’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘excessive’.