India's weather department defines normal monsoon as seasonal rainfall between 96% and 104% of the long-term, or 50-year, average, which is 89 centimeters currently.
India's monsoon weather has revealed new plumbing and electrical problems ahead of the arrival of England's first athletes on Thursday.
Soon after, India suffers an extreme weather event.
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Adam Sarhan, founder and chief executive at asset-management firm Sarhan Capital, New York, cited the poor weather in India as a reason for recently dumping gold after holding the precious metal in his portfolio for more than a decade.
At the start of the evening session, after 102 overs, the ball was changed, but not for a new one, as India were happy to use a weather-beaten object.
They then head off to India, where the pitches and weather will present very different challenges, for a series featuring two Tests and seven one-day internationals, before travelling to the West Indies in late January for four Tests and five one-day matches.
India is short of observation stations, weather planes, satellites, climate scientists and modellers.
These include a joint clean energy research and development center, the establishment of a global disease detection center in India, and an agreement for cooperation in weather and crop forecasting.
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"This is typical pre-monsoon weather, " said a senior Pune-based weather official of the state-run India Meteorological Department.
First, India is still far too dependent on the vagaries of the weather.
And that's how a thunderstorm off the coast of India might trigger a pattern of events which led to the weather switch last spring.
However, state media have taken care to emphasise how China is balancing an "all-weather" friendship with Islamabad with improved ties with India for the benefit of South Asia's stability and economic development.
Unusually cold weather is continuing to cause disruption to life across northern India, with more than 100 people feared dead in Bihar state alone.
Weather officials said a wind trough extending from eastern to southern India and a western disturbance would result in rains this week.
The weather is significant for the overall economy as more than half of India's workforce is employed in agriculture and their spendings on various goods and services depend to a large extent on a bountiful monsoon.
Conditions are favorable for the rains to reach more parts of southern India in the next two days and the western coast within a week, the weather department said.
Weather issues in Brazil, the largest producer, coupled with higher demand in India caused global sugar prices to rise to an all-time high in February 2010 nearly 30 cents per pound.
With overcast, cloudy and cold weather helping ample seam and swing bowling on relatively green tops, England has never been India's favourite playing field.
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