India, Aug. 9 -- Lopsided rains: Overall weekly cumulative rainfall departures over meteorological subdivisions were more than 50% of long period average along foothills of the Himalayas with highest for West Uttar Pradesh (141%) for the week ending August 6, according to the IMD; While most of the meteorological subdivisions in central India received deficient to large deficient rainfall during the week, all-India weekly rainfall departure was 24% below than the long period average, showing how lopsided rains were this week

Torrential rains lashed many parts of North India on Saturday with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing alerts for several districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Delhi and surrounding National Capit...