India, June 14 -- India's monsoon season, the country's main rainy season, runs officially from June to September. With data for the first 12 days of the 122-days season now in, how does rain's performance look like in the 2025 monsoon? The answer to this question has been complicated this year by the early arrival of the monsoon weather system. According to the gridded data of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the first 12 days of June have been unusually dry. However, this does not mean that the weather system did not bring the usual amount of rain. It just means that the rain expected in the first half of June fell before the usual first day of the monsoon. This makes the early arrival of monsoon this year a mixed bag. Here's ...