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How wet is the monsoon in July/August in South India?
Please don't laugh at my meteorological incompetence. I am flying into Mumbai on August 18th and travelling for the next couple of weeks. I know this is monsoon season, but don't know how bad it will be. Can I expect 14 days of solid rain, no sun and flash floods - should I pack my inflatable arm bands? Or is it a mixture of sun and showers (please!) I would quite like to visit Matheran - anyone been there in Monsoon time, or is it just one big sloppy mud slide?
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The southwest monsoon is generally expected to begin around the middle of June and dies down by September. It begins first in the coastal state of Kerala and moves upwards at a rate of roughly 1-2 weeks per state. The monsoon accounts for 80 percent of the rainfall in the country. Indian agriculture (which accounts for 25 percent of the GDP and employs 70 percent of the population) is heavily dependent on the rains, especially crops like cotton, rice, oilseeds and coarse grains. A delay of a few days in the arrival of the monsoon can, and does, badly affect the economy, as evidenced in the numerous droughts in India in the 90s.
The monsoon is widely welcomed and appreciated by city dwellers as well, for it provides relief from the climax of summer in June. However, because of the lack of adequate infrastructure in place, most major cities are often adversely affected as well. The roads, already shoddy, take a battering each year; houses and streets at the bottom of slopes and beside rivers are waterlogged, slums are flooded, and the sewers and the rare hurricane drain start to back up and pour out toxic filth rather than drain it away. This translates into various minor casualties most of the time (although a large number of people in rural areas are struck dead by lightning while working in their fields); however, this lack of city infrastructure coupled with changing climate patterns also causes severe damage to and loss of property and life, as evidenced in the Mumbai floods of 2005. Also, in the recent past, areas in India that receive scanty rainfall throughout the year, like the Thar Desert, have surprisingly ended up receiving floods due to the prolonged monsoon season.
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