NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's monsoon season is set to enter its withdrawal phase in the next two days, the state-run weather office said on Monday, after a vigorous spell of rains towards the tail end of the four-month season. Conditions are becoming favourable for withdrawal of the mon...
Monsoon season has brought devastation to a mountainous region of southern India. Incessant rain caused multiple deadly landslides in Kerala state. Watch this video to see the aftermath and witness the effort to find any survivors. - Videos from The Weat
The monsoon, which typically runs from June to September, is considered normal when total rainfall is between 96 per cent and 104 per cent of the national average of just over 88cm, the weather forecaster said. "It doesn't look like a drought year across India," Jason Nicholls, a senior ...
Meanwhile, rains have brought smiles back on the faces of farmers in several states who have commenced sowing of paddy. Agriculture in India is mostly dependent of monsoons. Monsoon rains have already triggered a severe flooding in India's northeastern states this month. In Assam alone over 1.75...
India faces severe floods every year during the monsoon season, between June and September, but experts have warned that climate change is making the seasonal rains more intense, longer lasting and more unpredictable.
Wayanad, a hilly district in the Western Ghats mountain range, is prone to landslides during the monsoon season. The district is home to hundreds of families who work in its tea and cardamom estates. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was saddened by the deaths and announced government relief...
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India’s crucial monsoon rains are expected to be above average in 2016, the weather office said on Tuesday, easing fears over farm and economic growth after two straight droughts hit rural incomes and agricultural output. Rains in 2016 would be 106 percent of the long-term average, Laxman ...
Above all, harvests are heavily dependent on the monsoon, the timing and magnitude of which are increasingly unpredictable. Rainfall in the 2023 monsoon season was below the historical norm, notably in the east of the country, as a result of the El Niño weather phenomenon. Conversely, Indi...
Using ERA5 reanalysis, we show that most of the CDHEs in India occur during the droughts caused by the summer monsoon rainfall deficit. Despite a decline in the frequency of summer monsoon droughts in recent decades, increased CDHEs are mainly driven by warming and dry spells during the ...