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Frequency of cloudbursts increasing: Studies

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August 17, 2025

The flash flooding and landslide triggered by torrential rain in Jammu and Kashmir has brought the spotlight on extreme weather events battering India’s Himalayas this monsoon season, a trend that tracks with rising extreme weather events as global temperatures have risen.

- Jayashree Nandi

Frequency of cloudbursts increasing: Studies

The incident in J&K comes on the back of another deadly flood on August 5, when suspected glacier collapse triggered flash floods in Dharali region of Uttarakhand. Extreme monsoon rainfall and flash floods also struck Kullu, Shimla, Lahaul and Spiti this week, continuing a pattern of escalating disasters across Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

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