India's Erratic Monsoon Threatens Crops and Power Grid
India is experiencing a highly unpredictable monsoon season, characterized by alternating dry and wet spells, which poses a significant threat to agricultural crops and the national power supply.
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Dry, wet, dry again: India’s ‘mysterious’ monsoon swings threaten crops, power supply
An intensifying El Nino and global warming are driving a shift in India’s monsoon rainfall, creating more erratic weather patterns that threaten to dent agricultural output and strain power grids. This year’s monsoon opened with India’s fifth-driest June on record and rainfall almost 40 per cent below normal levels, followed by a sudden deluge early this month – when about a month’s worth of precipitation was dumped on cities like Mumbai in a single week. Since then, the weather system has...
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El Nino and global warming are causing erratic monsoon rainfall in India, disrupting crop sowing, rural incomes and driving up power demand.
Read full article →A yo-yo monsoon in India is threatening crops and the power grid
With about half of India's farmland dependent on rainfall for irrigation, swings between dry spells and violent rain jeopardize rural incomes and raise risks of higher food costs.
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