This May has been rather wet, with India as a whole receiving 68.4 per cent more than the normal rainfall for the month so far. And it isn’t just rain. No record-breaking temperatures or significant heatwaves enveloping large parts of the country have been reported. Intermittent showers — enabled both by western disturbance winds carrying moisture from the Mediterranean Sea towards the Subcontinent and similar incursions from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea — have contributed to a wetter and cooler-than-usual summer this time. The pre-monsoon season from March 1 to May 23 has cumulatively reported 16.8 per cent above long-period average precipitation, with as many as 27 out of the total 36 meteorological........

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