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The India Meteorological Department today declared that it suppose monsoon rainfall to be normal this year. "Southwest monsoon yearly rainfall over the nation as a whole is likely to be normal." The India Meteorological Department says in its first stage Long Range Forecast for monsoons. It said that quantitatively, the monsoon seasonal rainfall expects to be 100 percent. Of the Long Period Average with a pattern error of 5 percent. The Long Period Average of the season rainfall over the country. As a whole for the period, 1961 to 2010 is 88 cm. Monsoons suppose to hit Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram on June 1. India Meteorological Department has updated the start and withdrawal date of monsoon in various other parts of India.