Monsoon arrives later, but it covers the country six days earlier.

NEW DELHI: According to the IMD, the southwest monsoon arrived in the entire nation on Sunday, six days earlier than usual (July 8). After its belated start on June 8, it took 25 days to span the entire nation this year.
Typically, monsoon season begins on June 1 and lasts for 38 days, covering the entire nation (by July 8). By July 2, 2017, the monsoon had descended throughout the entire nation. For the 13th time in the last 25 years, India as a whole had an early monsoon.

According to IMD officials, the monsoon covered the entirety of India on Sunday, marking the third time in the past 24 years that the rain-bearing system has finished moving across the nation on July 2. The monsoon often begins to spread across the entire nation on July 8.

According to IMD data, the first coverage of monsoon winds across the entire nation occurred on June 16, 2013, the day Kedarnath and other locations in Uttarakhand were severely damaged by cloudbursts and flash floods. Early or delayed monsoon onset or coverage has no bearing on the amount and location of rainfall. Nonetheless, it has an impact on the growing of kharif (summer sown) crops like cotton, sugarcane, cotton, and coarse cereals.

For instance, this year's sowing operations were impacted during the first three weeks of June by the delayed monsoon and its subsequent poor development. Sowing activities were expedited by the monsoon's quick advance, which by early last week had covered more than 90% of the country. According to data on area sown, kharif crops were grown on 203 lakh hectares as of June 30 — an increase of 10,000 hectares over the same period previous year. Due to the monsoon's delayed arrival and slow movement, the deficit was six lakh hectares on June 23.