Monsoon storms can be seen moving across various parts of India late in the week.
India’s annual southwest monsoon blew into New Delhi on the earliest date ever recorded. It also caused deadly floods in the northeast of the country that killed at least 30 people and left more than 300,000 others homeless.
Troops worked to rescue marooned villagers who had taken refuge on elevated highways and embankments after bursting levees caused vast tracts of farmland to become submerged.
The Indian Meteorological Department says this year’s northward advance of the monsoon rainfall has occurred without any breaks, rather than in the pulses that normally spread it across the Indian subcontinent.
Subhash Chander Bhan, the director of the agency, says the early rains are due to an unusual weather system pulling moisture off the Bay of Bengal and dumping it on India.
