2025 South West Monsoon in Upper Yamuna Basin

November 12, 2025 SANDRPLeave a comment

(Feature Image: Screenshot of IMD River basin wise cumulative rainfall map dated 30.09.2025 showing the Yamuna basin)

This report presents monthly rainfall figures during South West (SW) monsoon season 2025 for 16 districts located in 4 states of Himachal Pradesh (3 districts), Uttarakhand (3 districts), Haryana (5 districts), Uttar Pradesh (5 districts) which forms parts of the upper Yamuna basin. The India Meteorological Département (IMD) has divided Delhi in 10 divisions which entirely comes in upper Yamuna basin and the report has rainfall figures for entire Delhi area.

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Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand: Overview of 2025 Monsoon

November 10, 2025November 10, 2025 SANDRPLeave a comment

Bundelkhand is known as a drought prone region. It is comprised of 7 districts of Uttar Pradesh and 6 districts of Madhya Pradesh. The region is known as drought prone region in recent years. Let us see the situation of 2025 SW Monsoon rain in Bundelkhand.

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High Rainfall days in India’s districts in SW Monsoon 2025

November 3, 2025 SANDRPLeave a comment

An analysis of the daily district wise rainfall data from India Meteorological Department (IMD) for India’s South West Monsoon 2025 (June-Sept rainfall was 937.2 mm, 8% above normal) shows that there were 2224 (2555 in 2024 SW Monsoon) instances when a district rainfall of a day was above 50 mm. Out of 738 districts of India, 510 districts or, about 69% of the districts experienced such high rainfall days during SW monsoon 2025.

Such high rainfall instances included 1920 instances when rainfall was 50-100 mm, 247 instances when it was 100-150 mm, 38 times it was 150-200 mm and 19 times above 200 mm.

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SW Monsoon 2025: District wise rainfall in India

October 1, 2025October 6, 2025 SANDRPLeave a comment

In the just concluded South West Monsoon 2025, India received 937.2 mm (934.8 mm in SW Monsoon 2024, 820 mm in SW Monsoon 2023, 925 mm in SW Monsoon 2022 [i]) rainfall, about 107.9% (107.6% in 2024, 94.45 % in 2023, 106.5% in 2022) of the Normal SW Monsoon rainfall of 868.6 mm as per India Meteorological Department (IMD). This rainfall is categorised as normal rainfall. The rainfall in SW monsoon 2025 is 5^th highest since 2001 and 38^th highest since 1901.

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Aug 2025: High Rainfall days in India’s districts

September 13, 2025September 13, 2025 SANDRPLeave a comment

An analysis of the daily district wise rainfall data from India Meteorological Department (IMD) for the month of Aug 2025 shows that there were 664 (717 in Aug 2024; 500 in Aug 2023; 667 in Aug 2022[i] and 431 in Aug 2021) instances when rainfall of a day in a district was above 50 mm. Such high rainfall instances included 563 (572/ 424/ 553/ 371 in Aug 2024, Aug 2023, Aug 2022 and Aug 2021 respectively) instances when rainfall was 50-100 mm; 79 (113/ 67/ 98/ 48 in Aug 2024, Aug 2023, Aug 2022 and Aug 2021 respectively) instances when it was 100-150 mm; 13 (19/ 5/ 13/ 11 in Aug 2024, Aug 2023, Aug 2022 and Aug 2021 respectively) times it was 150-200 mm; and 9 (13/ 4/ 3/ 1 in Aug 2024, Aug 2023, Aug 2022 and Aug 2021 respectively) instance when a district day rainfall was above 200 mm.

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June Aug 2025: District wise rainfall in India’s SW Monsoon

September 12, 2025 SANDRPLeave a comment

In Aug 2025, India received just 268.8 mm (295.5 mm or 15.8% above normal in Aug 2024 [i], 162.7 mm or 36.2% below normal in Aug 2023 [ii], 263.8 mm in Aug 2022, 3.5% above the normal [iii]) or 5.45% above normal rainfall of 254.9 mm as per India Meteorological department (IMD). In Aug 2021, the rainfall was 195.9 mm [iv], about 24.13% below normal and in Aug 2020, the rainfall was 327 mm [v], or about 26.6% above normal.

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Dam Induced Flood Disaster

Punjab Floods 2025: Role of Bhakra, Pong and Ranjit Sagar Dams

September 7, 2025September 8, 2025 SANDRP3 Comments

Every dam can potentially help moderate floods to some extent in the downstream area. This is possible only when the dam is operated with that objective in mind. However, when the dam is NOT operated with that objective and is filled up as soon as there is water available, the same dam can in fact bring avoidable flood disaster in the downstream area.

This is exactly what has happened in Punjab ONCE AGAIN during the 2025 SW Monsoon. This has happened on numerous occasions in the past including in 1978, 1988 and 2023, for example.

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Floods

2025 Western Himalayan Floods: What can be done to reduce disastrous impacts?

August 30, 2025September 1, 2025 SANDRP1 Comment

Scary visuals and messages on social media as also some of the pronouncements of the Supreme Court about Himachal Pradesh have shown that Western. Himalayan states have faced multiple flood disasters in the ongoing SW Monsoon 2025. Landscape of Himalayas is known to be vulnerable to landslides, mudslips, cloudbursts, flash-floods, GLOFs, erosion, seismicity and floods. While some floods are inevitable in the kind of climate prevailing here, how they become disasters is linked to the way we have treated the landscape, environment, regulations, people and floods.

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June 2025: High Rainfall district days in India’s SW Monsoon

July 5, 2025July 5, 2025 SANDRPLeave a comment

An analysis of the daily district wise rainfall data from India Meteorological Department (IMD) for June 2025, the first month of India’s South West Monsoon 2025 shows that there were 415 instances (384 in June 2024 [i], 451 in June 2023 [ii], 462 in June 2022 [iii] and 442 in June 2021) when district rainfall of a day was above 50 mm. The rainfall of India in June 2024 was 147.2 mm [iv], the rainfall in June 2023 was 148.6 mm, the rainfall of India in June 2022 was 152.3 mm [v]. The data and analysis are based on IMD’s daily district wise rainfall bulletins for the 24 hours ending at 0830 am each day.

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June 2025: District wise rainfall in India’s SW Monsoon

July 1, 2025 SANDRP1 Comment

In the just concluded month June 2025, the first month of India’s South West 2025 monsoon, India received 180 mm rainfall, 8.89% above the normal June rainfall of 165.3 mm as per India Meteorological department. In June 2024 the rainfall was 147.2 mm, 11% below normal, June 2023 rainfall was 148.6 mm (10% below normal), in June 2022 the rainfall was 152.3 mm (8% below normal), in June 2021, the rainfall was 182.9 mm (about 11% above normal) and in June 2020, the rainfall was 196.9 mm (about 18% above normal) and in June 2019 it was 33% below normal. So in last seven years from 2019 to 2025, India had below normal rainfall in 4 years in June, and above normal in three years (2020, 2021, 2025). Nine times since 2008 June rainfall was below normal.

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