“…During the month of monsoon, India receives 117 cm of rainfall which is about 80 percent of total rainfall (Sahai et al 2003 ). The average rainfall (% standard deviation) is 1324.6 (11%), 618.7(19%), 976.4 (14%), and 730.5 (15%) mm for NE, NW, central, and peninsular India, respectively (Das et al 2017 ). In this analysis, daily temperature and rainfall datasets have been extracted from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Global Daily Temperature Time Series ( https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/ ) and Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) ( https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ), respectively.…”