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Mumbai: India is heading for its driest August in more than a century, with scant rainfall likely to persist across large areas, partly because of the El Nio weather pattern, two weather department officials told Reuters on Friday...
August rainfall, expected to be the lowest since records began in 1901, could dent yields of summer-sown crops, from rice to soybeans, boosting prices and overall food inflation, which jumped in July to the highest since January 2020...
The monsoon, vital for the $3-trillion economy, delivers nearly 70% of the rain India needs to water farms and refill reservoirs and aquifers...
Monsoon rainfall is expected to improve over the next two weeks in the northeast and some central regions, but dry conditions in northwestern and southern states are likely to persist, said another IMD official...
The El Nio weather pattern has begun to impact the Indian monsoon.. El Nino, a warming of waters that usually stifles rainfall over the Indian subcontinent, has emerged in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years...
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