One: the total is normal. Seasonal volume is tracking near the long-period average — the headline nobody believes while standing in a flooded underpass.
Two: the delivery is not. Very-heavy-rain days are up 60 percent on the baseline; moderate days are vanishing. Same water, harder punches.
Three: June was the furnace before the flood — 4.1 degrees above normal in the north-west, and a provisional 1,900 heat-attributed deaths the season review flags for revision.
Four: the whiplash has a fingerprint: delayed onset, stalled advance, then depressions steered north by a stubborn ridge — the circulation pattern every warming model projected.
Five: farming is winning anyway, so far. Kharif sowing runs seven percent ahead; the July excess landed mostly where seeds wanted it.
Six: adaptation is losing. Of 141 mandated city heat plans, 89 exist and 31 have money. The monsoon has changed faster than the paperwork. The full review is on our India desk.
