Many regions in India suffer from moist heatwaves during the southwest monsoon (SWM) season but the phenomenon is not well understood. A new research paper published in the journal Climate Dynamics showed that timings and locations of the moist heatwaves are controlled by the active and break periods of the SWM and can be predicted…
The South West Monsoon (SWM) brings more than 75 per cent of India’s rainfall between June and September. But it is characterised by break periods within that period when rains stop in most of the country and increase in the foothills of the Himalayas and the Northeast. These monsoon break periods are caused by dry…
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