{"id":549881,"date":"2026-07-20T02:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/549881\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T02:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:47:13","slug":"a-yo-yo-monsoon-in-india-is-threatening-crops-and-the-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/549881\/","title":{"rendered":"A yo-yo monsoon in India is threatening crops and the power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An intensifying El Nino and global warming are driving a shift in India\u2019s monsoon rainfall, creating more erratic weather patterns that threaten to dent agricultural output and strain power grids.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s monsoon opened with India\u2019s fifth-driest June on record and rainfall almost 40% below normal levels, followed by a sudden deluge early this month \u2014 when about a month\u2019s worth of precipitation was dumped on cities like Mumbai in a single week. Since then, the weather system has stalled into another break, with national rainfall about 24% lower than usual for the time of year as of July 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of rainy days and how they are distributed used to be smoother. That\u2019s how farmers developed their crop calendars over the years,\u201d said Raghuram Murtugudde, visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland. \u201cGlobal warming combined with El Ni\u00f1o makes the atmosphere act like a sponge that soaks a lot of water and then pours it all in one place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intensifying El Nino and global warming are driving a shift in India\u2019s monsoon rainfall, creating more erratic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,1647,85,207,46,50877],"class_list":["post-549881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-el-nino","tag-il","tag-india","tag-israel","tag-typhoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}