Across India, on average, the total rainfall in the 2022 monsoon season (it runs from June to September) has been “normal” since mid-June — suggesting that all appears to be well with the monsoon this year. However, a geographical breakup shows that this monsoon has been normal only by virtue of two polar opposite disasters: drought-like conditions across the Gangetic plains and floods in other parts of the country, of which the ones in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are the most recent.
