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Rainfall Pattern
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Jantar Mantar predicts rain
By Narayan Bareth Jaipur, July 18: Priests and scholars in Jaipur are still using astronomical instruments at the centuries-old Jantar Mantar observatory to predicts the monsoon. The pandits gathered at the observatory on Thursday evening and predicted good rainfall, but said the monsoon would be fragmented.
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Meghalaya faces rainfall shortage
Home to one of the wettest regions in the world, Meghalaya is facing shortage of rainfall this monsoon, along with Gujarat and southern parts of the country. Though southwest monsoon had covered the entire country by July 10, five days ahead of the average date, southern peninsula, several states in Northeastern India, Gujarat and central Maharashtra have witnessed scanty rainfall. Regions facing scanty rainfall also include North Karnataka, Telengana in Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Lakshadweep.
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Cloud seeding at Raiwada
Visakhapatnam July 17: The district administration is yet to take up the cloud seeding project for the region though it has been cleared by the state government recently. Cloud seeding would be carried out in Raiwada region as per the government orders. In its order the state asked the collector to consult Prof. T. Sivaji Rao, director of Environmental studies, and his associates who had earlier carried cloud seeding successfully in the district.
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Uneven distribution causing concern
MONSOON WATCH Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 18, 2008, 0:51 IST Weighed down by uneven distribution of rains, kharif sowing prospects look uncertain. The southern peninsula is nearly 34 per cent short of rains and the situation in Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan isn't too encouraging either. This has jeopardised the outlook for several crops, including oilseeds, especially groundnut, pulses, notably tur (arhar), cotton and plantations. In fact, paddy and sugarcane can also be adversely affected if the conditions do not improve soon.
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Storm causes flooding in Kulhudhuffushi
Continuous rainfall in Haa Dhaalu atoll Kulhudhuffushi caused severe flooding in the island leading to the closure of schools on Tuesday, the Island Office has said. Officials from the Kulhudhuffushi Island Office said yesterday afternoon that 25 houses in the island had reported being flooded during the storm and that in some houses the kitchens had flooded so bad that it was impossible to cook in there.
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CCC move fails to prevent waterlogging
The dredging and widening of canals have failed to bring about any positive change in the city life as the rain-induced inundation continues to cause suffering to the city dwellers from the very beginning of the rainy season. The city dwellers said the low-lying areas of the port city go under knee-deep to waist-deep water even during the short-lived rainfall lasting only two to three hours that aggravates the suffering.
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Part -1 After 2 yrs, hope floats in flooded Bundelkhand
But all's not well, as rain floods fields due to lack of proper irrigation system in many districts Tikamgarh District (Madhya Pradesh): When the train pulled out of Delhi station on June 12, Sukhram felt something tug at his heart. The migrant labourer was going home to his two children but had little to take back to them. The thought of his parched, sun-baked land in Kaluguan
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Scanty rain may hit kharif crop, says NCDEX economist
Insufficient rain in the central, southern and western parts of the country could hit kharif crop, a leading economist has said. "Kharif crops received insufficient rain in prominent cropping zones like Assam, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Going forward, the southern states and central India may witness low rain hampering the growth of Kharif crops further,' NCDEX economist Shraddha Umarji said here.
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Monsoon has been good, well distributed: PAU
Monsoon in Punjab has generally been good and covered most of parts of the state. This year monsoon arrived nearly 15 days early, but it was well distributed in June. This rain has been beneficial for the transplantation of paddy, and also for sugarcane and horticultural crops. For cotton and some vegetable crops, it has not been so good. According to Agro-Meteorology Department experts of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) here, normal rainfall for June was 66.4 mm, but June 2008, recorded the highest rainfall of 277.3 mm in 40 years at Ludhiana.
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Monsoon may not help govt tide over oil shock
It is a hard blow that will not land softly. As the Manmohan Singh government braces for the June 5 fuel shock to reflect more fully in this Friday's inflation figures, even a good monsoon may not quite rescue it from the political quagmire of high food prices and rising interest rates.