After a wet July packed with extreme rainfall, the southwest monsoon is expected to enter a weak phase this week with poor showers in central and peninsular India, this newspaper reported on Monday. Experts warned the weak monsoon phase might stretch for up to two weeks with large variations in the rainfall pattern, and a […]
Tag Archives: El Nino.
12
Jun
Jun
The monsoon may have landed in India, but only just. And even before it could take hold, cyclone Biparjoy might scuttle it off-course. Last Thursday, the monsoon arrived over Kerala, seven days after it normally arrives in the southern state, even as scientists warned that the onset of the monsoon remained weak, adding to already […]
04
May
May
On Thursday morning, Delhi woke up to a blanket of fog enveloping the city, sending the mercury plunging to 15.8 degrees Celsius (°C), the lowest in 41 years. On Wednesday, it was nine degrees below the normal. On Tuesday, it was 11 degrees below the average in May. And on Monday, Delhi clocked a maximum […]