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July is usually the rainiest month of the June-September southwest monsoon season. This makes it important to track the status of rain in this month, particularly in the ongoing monsoon season, which started off very dry. How has July rain been so far? HT’s analysis of the gridded rainfall data of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) shows that the month, which started very wet, has accumulated a deficit now. While it should not be difficult to make up July’s deficit, erasing the deficit accumulated in June is still a tall order.