Accuweather.com - 6/14/13, Jim Andrews
Enjoying the spray from high waves striking the coast at Mumbai, India, Thursday, June 13, 2013. Unbeknownst to most people other than mariners, strong southwesterly winds of the Indian Summer Monsoon were busily at work over the open Arabian Sea, as they would be each year in June, heaping up the high waves that eventually roll ashore on India's west coast. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
In northern India, parts of Punjab and Haryana have already got the first heavy falls of rain two to three weeks ahead of the historical average Monsoon onset.
Isolated pre-Monsoon cloudbursts, some with damaging winds, hail and dust storms, have dealt out falls of rain sometimes amounting to many times the historical average amount for June in Pakistan and northwest India.
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