While the first drops of India’s annual rains are still more than a month away, weather watchers are already predicting the country’s painful dry spell will end this year with higher-than-average monsoon rains.

Early rainfall predictions are notoriously unreliable—in fact they are wrong more often than they are right. Still, investors and executives are hoping they come true this time as the South Asian nation could use a bit of extra rain following two years of drought.

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