India on the whole currently has a Monsoon rain deficit of ~20%. This is expected in El Niño years.
I suspect some of the excess evaporation off the subcontinent is precipitating over Sri Lanka. We haven't had a drought in ages and it feels like our monsoon seasons are getting longer and longer.
Strange... Here in East Polynesia it has been a very wet dry season.
Y'all sound like us Texans saying it's a nice Fall we're having this Winter