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Highest Dry Districts – Haryana
October 24 , 2019
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- Haryana had the highest number of dry districts, 19 out of 21.
- The overall monsoon deficiency in Haryana was 42%, which made it the driest state in the country in the season after Manipur (-56%).
- India Meteorological Department (IMD) defines “deficient” rainfall in a district as rainfall that is 20% to 59% below normal.
- Deficiency of 60% or more falls in the “scanty” or “large deficient” category.
- India experienced its wettest monsoon in 25 years.
- However, 154 districts in the country — more than one in every five for which data is available — received deficient or scanty rainfall in the season.
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