This post is my humble attempt at making sense of the mayhem unleashed by the monsoons this year. Incredible amount of water has rained from the skies, especially over the Indian subcontinent. So much that Delhi has surpassed its annual average with 4 months to spare, which is a rare achievement given the drought-like conditions that prevail every other year.
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| Dark rain-laden clouds that brought a lot of precipitation |
And it is an El Nino year, that is touted as a phenomenon where the warming of the Pacific leads to hotter temperatures throughout the year. The part that is conveniently ignored is its impact on the rains. Because hotter does not mean drier...
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| Cute snails in our local park |
El Nino years have always had significantly more severe rainfall and cyclones, leading to waterlogging, floods, and typhoons in many places, and resulting in massive losses of life and livelihood. Yet we prefer to be tone deaf when it comes to a climate change conversation. Till we end up with something catastrophic like what happened in Nepal. I believe glacial melting would also be higher in the El Nino years but no warnings are ever issued.
My only wish is to live in a world where technology is used more to benefit mankind - with accurate predictions, timely warnings, and faster disaster response being the benchmark. Unfortunately the world we are currently inhabiting seems to treat humans as entirely dispensable.
I love the magic of the monsoons, as you can see from the pictures in this post. But I am seriously worried about the mayhem it is causing in our part of the world.
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