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A melange of rainy season storminess, monsoon clouds and rains, powerful gusting winds, lightning and thunder in the Himalaya, during the north-west monsoon season in India. A profusion of hail stones and hail storms too, all a result of changing climatic and weather patterns, commonly clubbed by us anthropogenic climate change. Traffic inches up a Himalayan road with fresh snowfall hindering progress. At 8 minutes into this video, see wheat crops flattened by unseasonal rains. Storminess, monsoon clouds and rains, powerful gusting winds, lightning and thunder in the Himalaya The standing wheat crop was flattened and thus destroyed after unseasonal spring-time rains in the north Indian plains of Uttar Pradesh, in the spring-summer of 2023, thanks for western disturbances bringing unseasona
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