Why weather experts extend hope of a good monsoon in 2021 Why weather experts extend hope of a good monsoon in 2021 | India Today Insight If their forecasts are proved right, this will be the third normal south west monsoon in a row and good news for the farm economy advertisement UPDATED: April 19, 2021 21:00 IST An Indian farmer ploughs a paddy field following monsoon rain in Phafamau village near Allahabad on July 27, 2019. (Photo by SANJAY KANOJIA /AFP) In the midst of a sweltering summer and a raging pandemic, weather watchers have raised expectations of rains aplenty for the third year in a row, ruling out completely the prospects of 2021 being a drought year. The last time India had three consecutive years of normal monsoon was between 1996 and 1998.