After slowly drying up over 50 years, the monsoon is making a comeback in north India

After slowly drying up over 50 years, the monsoon is making a comeback in north India

During the second half of the 20th century, the skies above northern central India dried up. Across vast swathes of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh, the monsoon rains between June and September went into decline. Since 1950, the daily rainfall average had dropped by 0.18 millimetres (mm) per decade. This was…