No Rain or Too Much of It: Why India Is Witnessing Changing Monsoon Patterns
The monsoon season is giving way to flash floods, and intense bouts of rainfall. What's going wrong?
By: GARIMA SADHWANI
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If you've lived in Delhi for even a few years, you would know that surviving the weather here is no mean feat. The city has witnessed some of the hottest summers and coldest winters in the last few years.
Year after year, it's becoming harder to predict the record-hitting temperatures the city will touch. And even between these extremes, the monsoon has been taking us by surprise, too.
On 28 June, Delhi broke an 88-year-old record as the national capital received 228.1 mm of rainfall in the span of a few hours, which was more than its monthly average.
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As India has been witnessing erratic patterns of rainfall in the last couple of years, the monsoon season has annually given way to flash floods, and intense bouts of rainfall.
But why is the pattern of rainfall in India changing so drastically? And who does this affect the most?
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