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Is climate change responsible for the hail storms and unseasonal rainfall in Maharashtra?

by The Daily Eye Team March 13 2014, 11:34 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secs

Is climate change responsible for the hail storms and unseasonal rainfall in parts of Maharashtra? Or is it a one-off phenomenon?

The South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) on Tuesday described it as “unprecedented.” Hailstorms by the end of February 2014, initially thought of as a one-off phenomenon, continued to batter places like Solapur for nearly two weeks now. Rabi crops like wheat, harbhara, cotton, jowar, summer onion are lost, horticultural crops like papaya, sweet lime, grapes are battered and orchards which took years to grow are ridden to the ground.

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