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Zawya
02-06-2025
- Business
- Zawya
India's monsoon stalls after early start; to pick up again around June 11
Rainfall over India is likely to remain subdued for over a week as the annual monsoon's progress has stalled after its earliest onset in 16 years, though it is likely to pick up again from June 11, two senior weather bureau officials said on Monday. The monsoon, the lifeblood of the country's nearly $4 trillion economy, delivers nearly 70% of the rain that India needs to water farms and replenish aquifers and reservoirs. Nearly half of India's farmland, which has no irrigation, depends on the annual June-September rains for crop growth. Monsoon rainfall will be subdued in the next few days, but from June 11-12, the monsoon will strengthen and start covering the remaining parts of the country, said S. D. Sanap, scientist with the India Meteorological Department's (IMD) Pune office. Monsoon onset over Kerala occurred on May 24 and quickly covered southern, northeastern and some parts of western India ahead of its usual schedule, but its progress has stalled for the past few days, according to an IMD chart that tracked the monsoon's progress. A weather system is likely to develop in the Bay of Bengal around June 11 that will strengthen the monsoon and create favourable conditions for its progress in the northern parts of the country, said another weather department official. Summer rains usually fall in Kerala around June 1 before spreading nationwide by mid-July, allowing farmers to plant crops such as rice, corn, cotton, soybeans and sugarcane. The early arrival of the monsoon brought cheer to farmers, though the recent and sudden stall in rainfall surprised them, said a Mumbai-based dealer with a global trade house. "Farmers are holding off on planting soybean, cotton, and other summer crops until there's more rain. They're waiting for the soil to have enough moisture," the dealer said. (Reporting by Rajendra Jadhav; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
ABC News
18-05-2025
- Climate
- ABC News
Clearer skies ahead for Queensland as sunshine returns after wet autumn
Clearer skies are forecast for Queensland as the sunshine starts to return after a wet autumn. The weather bureau predicts scattered showers for the south-east on Monday and Tuesday, before sunny conditions take over for the rest of the week into next weekend. "It really is a fairly benign week of weather across much of Queensland," senior meteorologist Harry Clark said. While northern and inland parts of the state can expect sunshine all week, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba are forecast to receive occasional showers throughout Monday. "It's certainly not a complete dry change just yet on the horizon," Mr Clark said. "For that, we'll probably need to look more towards the weekend or early next week." Forecast maximum temperatures are 25 degrees in Brisbane, 23 on the Gold and Sunshine coasts, 28 in Cairns, and 25 in Mackay and Rockhampton. "The most notable thing will be the cool mornings," Mr Clark said. "We have fairly moderate southerly [air] flow that's established itself. "That's going to start to pump some cooler air into the interior of Queensland, leading to those morning temperatures really starting to drop off as we head towards winter. "We could even see the first frost of the season around the Carnarvon [Ranges] on Tuesday morning. "It's going to be very isolated and patchy if it does occur, but certainly it's a sign that winter is on the way." The bureau said some parts of south-east Queensland had already exceeded their annual average rainfall, less than five months into 2025. Coolangatta has had 1,533 millimetres so far this year, more than the annual average of 1,517. It is a similar story on the Sunshine Coast. "Nambour so far this year has had 1,676 millimetres — the average for January to May is 1,063mm and the annual average is 1,628mm," Mr Clark said. "That really speaks volumes to how persistently wet it has been across most of Queensland. "Rainfall naturally decreases as we head to those [winter] months as it's really dominated by drier westerly winds." Mr Clark said the climate outlook for the next three months was "a fairly neutral signal", meaning a likely return to drier conditions.
