Vol. 11, Special Issue 12 (2022)

Impact of global warming is not limited to global and regional changes in temperature; it also has significant impact on regional rainfall patterns, which may not only alter rainfall amount but rainfall distribution and patterns. Rainfall trend is an important tool which assesses the impact of climate change and provides direction to cope up with its adverse effects on the agriculture. This study focuses on rainfall variation and detecting trends in the annual, monthly, seasonal and weekly rainfall in Parbhani region of Marathwada in Maharashtra State. The analysis of rainfall variation was done by using statistical parametric test and trend analysis was done by using Mann-Kendall and Sen’s slope test. The results revealed that, no trend was observed in annual, seasonal and monthly rainfall of Parbhani. Whereas increasing rainfall trend was observed in 23^rd, 37^th and 38^th SMW at 95 and 90 per cent significance level respectively.