Sri Lanka's southwest monsoon season runs from May to September. But Reuters reports that recent rainfall has been unusually heavy, even for this rainy period.

Situated between six degrees and 10 degrees north, Sri Lanka has a typical tropical climate, which is somewhat modified by the seasonal wind reversal of the southwest monsoon.

A carcass of a wild elephant, believed to have drowned following the onset of the South-West monsoon in Dimbulagala, 250 kilometres north-east of Colombo on May 26, 2024. -/AFP via Getty Images ...

Monsoon advances to Sri Lanka, onward to Kerala Conditions are favourable for further advance of Southwest Monsoon over some more parts of South Arabian Sea, entire Maldives and adjoining areas of ...

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has located India's South-West monsoon currently to the south-east of Sri Lanka. This is near to its average location for this time of the year, the ...

A striking seasonal phenomenon is unfolding off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, as cold, nutrient-rich waters rise to the ocean surface, boosting marine productivity in the region.According to ...

Today once again, the southwest monsoon season is with us and believe it or not, just weeks into the monsoon season (7 June) 245,212 people have been adversely affected by the rains.

Even as India is awaiting the onset of this year’s South-West monsoon along the Kerala coast around May 31 as projected by the India Meteorological Department (IMD,) it would be instructive to ...