Representative image of Delhi monsoon.
NEW DELHI: Monsoon rains that mark the start of the four-month rainy season are likely to enter India through the southern coast around June 1, in line with typical patterns, a top government official said on Thursday. This is an early indication, Madhavan Rajeevan, secretary of the ministry of earth sciences, said in a tweet. India s weather office will issue its official forecast for this year s monsoon onset on May 15, Rajeevan said. Nearly half of India s farmland, which has no irrigation cover, depends on annual June-September rains to grow crops such as rice, corn, cane, cotton, and soybeans.
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Nearly half of India s farmland, which has no irrigation cover, depends on June-September rain
Monsoon rains that mark the start of the four-month rainy season are likely to enter India through the southern coast around June 1, in line with typical patterns, a top government official said on Thursday. This is an early indication, Madhavan Rajeevan, secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, said in a tweet. India s weather office will issue its official forecast for this year s monsoon onset on May 15, Rajeevan said.
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Nearly half of the country s farmland, which has no irrigation cover, depends on annual June-September rains to grow crops such as rice, corn, cane, cotton, and soybeans. The country s weather office said last month the country was expected to get average monsoon rains this year, raising expectations of higher farm output, which is central to the country s economy.
Delhi sees light rain, gusty winds bring down mercury
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Water Logging after the Heavy Rain at Mathura Road in New Delhi on Sunday.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 6 : The national capital witnessed sudden change in weather, with hovering dark clouds bringing light rain, and gusty winds blowing on Thursday evening, bringing the temperature down.
The sudden change in the weather gave relief to the people stuck in homes due to the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, after a warm morning with minimum temperature settling at 26 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season s average and the maximum temperature around 39 degrees Celsius, according to the weather department.
Why weather experts extend hope of a good monsoon in 2021
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If their forecasts are proved right, this will be the third normal south west monsoon in a row and good news for the farm economy
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An Indian farmer ploughs a paddy field following monsoon rain in Phafamau village near Allahabad on July 27, 2019. (Photo by SANJAY KANOJIA /AFP)
In the midst of a sweltering summer and a raging pandemic, weather watchers have raised expectations of rains aplenty for the third year in a row, ruling out completely the prospects of 2021 being a drought year. The last time India had three consecutive years of normal monsoon was between 1996 and 1998.