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10 weather terms people often get wrong
29 February 2024

There are surprisingly strict definitions for a host of weather-related phenomena. Read on to find out what the polar vortex actually is, the difference between rain and showers, and why it’s redundant to say “a tornado touched down”.

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Changes in the relationship between Indian Ocean dipole and Indian summer monsoon rainfall in early and recent multidecadal epochs during different phases of monsoon
07 August 2020

Summary of the research article published in the RMetS International Journal of Climatology

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The Indian Monsoon in a Changing Climate

As part of the larger-scale Asian monsoon, the monsoon over India is formed due to intense solar heating in late spring as the solar maximum moves north from the equator. 

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Current weather around the world
17 June 2019

Summary of weather around the world during May and June 2019

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Kerala Flooding - Indian Monsoon Season 2018
23 August 2018

The southern Indian state of Kerala has been devastated by floods since early June 2018.

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Weather around the World 2018
27 June 2018

Whilst the UK is in the middle of a prolonged period of relatively warm and dry weather, the weather elsewhere in Europe has been more varied, with unseasonable rain and snow.

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Devastating Monsoon in South Asia
31 August 2017

More than a third of Bangladesh and Nepal, and large areas of India have been hit with the worst flooding in years

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