Intense rainfall over the weekend has created havoc in north India, with rivers in spate, landslides in the mountains, water logging in the plains, and many deaths in rain-related incidents. The nationwide monsoon deficit may have been wiped out. Still, extreme rainfall events like these—an alarming annual regularity in India in the last decade—are the kind that climate scientists have been warning us for years now
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A poster announcing the tv series ‘Monsoon-season of love’ looks over workers pumping out water from a flooded street in New Delhi, India, on July 9, 2023.