Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
New Delhi: Expecting the manifestation of weak to moderate El Nino conditions in September, sources in the Indian Meteorological Department have said that the last month of the monsoon is likely to have
Paddy growers claim input cost has risen by Rs 3,000 per acre due to the weak monsoon Amritsar: With rain remaining elusive in Majha this monsoon, paddy growers have been struggling to save their crop.
New Delhi Despite deficient monsoon rains, the country’s foodgrain output this year is likely to surpass that of the 2009 drought year, the government said on Thursday. Monsoon rains have been 15% deficient between June 1 and August 1, and four states — Karnataka, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra — are facing drought-like situation. “Despite weak monsoon, total grain production is expected to be better than 2009,” minister of state for agriculture and parliamentary affairs Harish Rawat said at the golden jubilee celebration of state-run National Seeds Corporation (NSC).
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation has cut its global forecast for rice paddy production this year by 7.8 million tonnes to 724.5 million tonnes — the downward revision mainly because
Mhaswad Armed with the latest monsoon rainfall data, weather experts finally conceded this month that India is facing a drought, confirming what millions of livestock farmers around the country had known for weeks. For over three months, even state agencies have been providing free fodder to those most vulnerable to a shortfall in India’s annual monsoon — farmers who eke a living out of small landholdings and the milk provided by cattle.
In a finding that could help predict drought, farm scientists have noticed that deficit rainfall and drought follow a chronological pattern, repeating every 2.5 years in Telangana and Rayalaseema, and
For many in India, when the largest blackout the world has ever seen struck last week, it didn't come as a surprise. Smaller, scheduled blackouts are a common way that the country copes with its explosive
The Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) has remained remarkably stable during the last 140 years. The ISMR has varied between 70% and 120% of the long-term average of about 85 cm. Monsoon seasons with
With the colour of Yamuna changing, the city administration must immediately take some steps to tackle the problem of water contamination. In the monsoon season the flow of Yamuna becomes strong with a lot of soil and silt in the water, which comes through soil erosion. This dirty water not only changes the colour of the river from black to yellow but it affects the water treatment plants of Delhi. The 50-year-old water treatment plants of Wazirabad and Chandrawal areas of Delhi are again suffering with the yellow water problem.
Four labourers declared dead in Uttarkashi found alive Many areas in North India received rain on Monday while some stared at floods and landslides due to incessant downpour. In Uttar Pradesh, swollen rivers in the eastern districts have sent alarm bells ringing, forcing many people in several villages to seek shelter at safer places. The Ghaghra and Saryu in Gonda and Ayodhya, flowing above the danger mark, have forced residents of over a dozen villages to rush to safer places and some 2,000 people have taken shelter on the roadside.