{"id":88837,"date":"2025-07-20T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=88837"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:47:11","slug":"indias-monsoon-season-grows-increasingly-unpredictable-and-devastating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/indias-monsoon-season-grows-increasingly-unpredictable-and-devastating\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s monsoon season grows increasingly unpredictable and devastating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k72NxzcsWlT5xtDtfJk\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nIndia has witnessed its wettest May in 125 years, with torrential rains arriving well ahead of the usual monsoon season. Typically expected in early June, the monsoon arrived early this year, flooding cities across the country. Driven by a temperature contrast between the Indian Ocean and the Asian subcontinent.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has witnessed its wettest May in 125 years, with torrential rains arriving well ahead of the usual monsoon season. Typically expected in early June, the monsoon arrived early this year, flooding cities across the country. Driven by a temperature contrast between the Indian Ocean and the Asian subcontinent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[30912,501,37848,37849],"class_list":["post-88837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-devastating","tag-india","tag-monsoon-season","tag-unpredictable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88841,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88837\/revisions\/88841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}