Two back-to-back cyclones delayed monsoon: Experts
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Vibha Sharma
Tribune News Service
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New Delhi, June 4
On the eve of World Environment Day, experts have said the impact of climate change has started showing on southwest monsoon. Two successive cyclones — Tauktae and Yaas — not only delayed the monsoon in Kerala, but also impacted its current.
The southwest monsoon made an onset over Kerala on June 3 against its usual arrival on June 1. The IMD had earlier predicted its arrival on May 31, which it changed later.
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GP Sharma, chief of meteorology and climate change at Skymet Weather, says Tauktae and Yaas took away “much of the kinetic energy from water bodies, which almost ceased the weather activity in Kerala. The required wind pattern and speed were also absent”.
Sushant Puranik from the department of atmospheric and space science at the University of Pune also says Yaas intensified rapidly due to conducive atmospheric conditions, taking away moisture and energy.
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