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Give a reasoned account of unusual pattern of distribution of monsoonal rainfall in India in 2017.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Physical Setting

The 2017 south-west monsoon closed at about 95 per cent of the long period average — below normal, and short of the 98 per cent the seasonal forecast had indicated.

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  • The Anomaly Itself
  • Reversal between north and south
  • Flood and deficit in the same season
  • The Reasoning
  • It was not an El Niño failure
  • Displacement of the monsoon trough and the depression tracks
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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