The delay in the onset, however, will not have any implications over the weather office’s earlier prediction of 100% normal monsoon rainfal...

Farmers suffered a bad monsoon last year because rainfall was very uneven, starting very late and causing floods towards the end of the sea...

Experts say past decade’s trend of intense bursts of rainfall caused by global warming to continue.

The monthly rainfall over the country as whole is likely to be 95% during July and 99% of LPA during August.

Rainfall in six out of 14 districts was more than 10 times the normal on Thursday. Idukki alone got 266mm of rain.

The situation in Karnataka is not that worse and could be made up if it rains in the next few weeks. “Rains are just 9% deficient at 516 mm.

The onset over Kerala is likely to be pushed back due to a delay in the transient phase from pre-monsoon to monsoon.

The new estimate is lower than the 93 per cent forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in April.

Any deviation in the onset time of monsoon can result in significant change in the area of some rain fed crops which need early sowing like...

Monsoon is likely to arrive over Delhi between June 18 - 22 compared to the normal date of June 29. It set over Kerala on June 1 compared t...

According to a series of studies being done by meteorologists, there would be a 26% fall in annual rainfall in the next few decades in the ...

After an upbeat start, India's monsoon slipped into the red this week with the country receiving three per cent deficient rains since its o...

The monsoon, which is a seasonal reversal in the wind direction, causes most of the rainfall received in India and some other parts of the ...

Three days ahead of schedule, the monsoon arrived in Kerala Sunday, with heavy rains being reported since Saturday night in the central and...

Economists believe that India can increase its foodgrain production by seven to eight million tonnes if the monsoon rains are normal.

The South West monsoon has failed Kerala in its first phase, causing concern to the farm sector, hydel-based power generation and drinking ...

With southwest monsoon moving almost eight days in advance over Bay of Bengal and adjoining regions, the Indian Meteorological Department h...