Performence of South West Monsoon 2016 in India

Monsoon is one of the oldest and most anticipated weather phenomena. The unique geographical features of the Indian Subcontinent along with associated atmospheric, oceanic and geographical factors influence the behavior of the monsoon. Monsoon season is crucial to India’s rain fed agricultural economy with its onset launching the sowing season for summer crops. But, this year’s monsoon is especially important as the country faced two back to back deficient monsoons in 2014, 2015. El Nino weather phenomena is showing signs of waning by the time India’s south west monsoon gathers steam around July and August. So, monsoon brings fury of floods in India. Despite of mountainous terrain in north east states, 35% deficiency in rainfall has been observed over North East Region. The present paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of south west monsoon over North East India and to examine the reason behind rainfall deficiency in these regions as compared to others parts of country and also to discuss rent less rain over North-West India.