This is what the southwest monsoon looks like
06 July 2016
I downloaded daily precipitation data for Mumbai from Weather Underground. That's what the start of the monsoon season looks like. Almost no rain for the first half of the year, and then the monsoon.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) have a great web page all about the monsoon. This chart pasted below shows the advance of the monsoon over the past few weeks.
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