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India Monsoons Three Times Heavier Than Normal (Video)

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Aljazeera- 6/20/13

 

At least 130 people have been killed and 70,000 others left stranded in devastating flash floods to hit northern India, private television channel NDTV has reported.

The channel said on Wednesday that thousands of houses in the states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh had been swept away in the floods and authorities were using helicopters to evacuate people and drop essential food supplies.

Northern India has witnessed torrential rains at least three times more than usual over the past week ever since the annual monsoon broke a fortnight ahead of schedule, leaving thousands of pilgrims and tourists stranded, officials said.

India Monsoons: Record Rainfall Continues as Earth Continues Cleansing

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Accuweather.com - 6/14/13, Jim Andrews

Enjoying the spray from high waves striking the coast at Mumbai, India, Thursday, June 13, 2013. Unbeknownst to most people other than mariners, strong southwesterly winds of the Indian Summer Monsoon were busily at work over the open Arabian Sea, as they would be each year in June, heaping up the high waves that eventually roll ashore on India's west coast. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

In northern India, parts of Punjab and Haryana have already got the first heavy falls of rain two to three weeks ahead of the historical average Monsoon onset.

Isolated pre-Monsoon cloudbursts, some with damaging winds, hail and dust storms, have dealt out falls of rain sometimes amounting to many times the historical average amount for June in Pakistan and northwest India.

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