India may witness poor rainfall this monsoon season, scientists said Wednesday. This has been linked to the El Nino, a weather phenomenon characterized by unusually warm ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. It has a significant impact on climate in many parts of the world and has a warming influence on global temperatures.

"There is a strong consensus about the possibility of evolution of an El Nino event during the summer monsoon season," D.S. Pai, head of India Meteorological Department's regional climate centre here, said Wednesday. He was releasing the consensus forecast of the South Asian Climate Outlook Forum -- a group of global weather experts affiliated to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

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