Monsoon crosses Himalayas/Source: IMD On a pale September morning in 2025, the skies offered an image no climatologist expected. Satellite frames showed moisture from the southwest monsoon climbing the ridges of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Ladakh — not halting at the Himalayan divide but slipping into the Tibetan Plateau. For a moment, the mountains that have long held the monsoon captive seemed to falter. The sight was first noticed by Manish Mehta, glaciologist at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, while examining early September maps. “Moisture appears to have crossed over to Tibet,” he said, his caution matched only by the significance of the claim. Schematic: Southwest Monsoon Moisture Crossing the Himalayas Scientists Urge Caution No one rushed to announce a climatic revolution. Raghu Murtugudde, climate scientist at IIT Bombay and the University of Maryland, noted: “We have to be careful about inferring moisture transport based on such images. Strong advection into...
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