India, May 10 -- North-western, western, and north-eastern regions of India experienced a warmer than normal April. For the former two regions, the first eight days of May have brought relief from that heat. The weather in the May so far is almost a mirror image of the weather in April for north-western and western India.

An HT analysis suggests that this is because rainfall trends in May so far have also turned into almost a mirror image of April rainfall trends.

As HT reported last week, north-western, western, and north-eastern regions of India experienced a warmer than normal (1981-2010 average) April by average maximum temperature. For north-eastern India, this trend has continued in the first eight days of May. However, for north-...