Normal rainfall hard to find

Twelve states in India received over 60 per cent surplus rains in the second week of July this year. The resultant floods in Bihar and Assam …

This monsoon was far from being ‘normal’

While rainfall over the entire country falls under the normal category, distribution of rain has been a far cry from IMD scientists' forecast

Meanwhile, the monsoon anomaly

Instead of quantum of rainfall, we must analyse the distribution of rainfall to understand the changing nature of the monsoon

Rainfall pattern changing in India

Uttarakhand receives more rainfall in June than before