This chart show how the Weather Trends India country-wide rainfall forecast for the past three months has verified. The bars are the year over year (2008 vs. 2007) forecasted change in weekly precipitation totals (mm) and the line represents the observed totals. This forecast which was made during the summer of 2007 verified with 84.6% accuracy. While this year’s monsoon started off strong in June, July was very dry in the south even though the northern sugarcane belt received healthy precipitation totals. Looking ahead, the situation will start to improve for India’s southern cane growing regions, but the lack of surface and subsurface soil moisture remains a problem for the current crop.

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