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Report on Southwest monsoon
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- The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Asian Development Bank released a joint report recently.
- The report found that southwest monsoon is lasting longer than its season.
- It may overlap with the northeast monsoon, causing more severe downpour, flooding and storms in South Asia.
- The southwest monsoon reached the peninsular India on time, it had stayed beyond seasonal boundary of September.
- In 2021, it had lasted until October, overlapping with the northeast monsoon.
- It found that disasters displaced about 61.4 million people in south Asia during this period.
- Of this, 58.6 million were displaced because of weather-related disasters.
- Floods and storms caused about 90 per cent of the total displacement.
- Floods caused the displacement of 37.4 million and storm, including major tropical cyclones, caused 21 million internal displacements.
- In the overall Asia-Pacific region, about 225 million individuals were displaced during the 2010-2021 period.
- This means that nearly 19 million people were displaced because of disaster each year.
- This is more than 75 per cent of the total global figure on displacement.
- 95 per cent of all disaster displacements in Asia Pacific are caused by monsoon rains, floods and storms.
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