Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jun 1: The central meteorological department has said that it expects monsoon to enter Kerala and Karnataka on the same day, June 6.

It also expected the rainfall to be normal this time with south India expected to get 97 percent of its normal rainfall. The report was released on Friday May 31.

The monsoon season will be on from June to September end. The department said that there are changes of about eight percent variation in its prediction.

Scientist of Karnataka Sate Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, Sunil Gavaskar, said that like in last year, monsoon might enter both Karnataka and Kerala on the same day. He pointed out that there have been several past instances in which monsoon season began in these two states on the same day.

In the meanwhile, the department said that several places in the state including the ones located in south interior Karnataka might receive rain with thunder.