The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Plan for a fresh financial assistance comes at a time when the public debt in Maharashtra has already crossed Rs 3.85 lakh crore. Deficient rains and deepening farm crisis, coupled with rising political pressure, seem to have forced the Maharashtra government to consider yet another farm package, despite a delicate …
Nagpur: Only negligible rainfall has been recorded across Vidarbha in the first fortnight of July. This has led to five out of 11 districts of the region, and the region as a whole, becoming rainfall deficient. Shortage of rains has left farmers worried about the seeds sowed recently for the …
Competing forecasts have injected a new dimension to the hazardous business of monsoon prediction this year, with private weather agency Skymet taking a completely different view of how rains would perform in what are the most crucial four months of the year for India's economy. While the country's official agency, …
It hasn't washed away the fears of deficit rainfall, but the monsoon's satisfactory performance so far has sharply reduced the possibility of a second consecutive drought in the country this year. In a drought year, average nationwide rainfall is at least 10 per cent below normal. As of now, almost …
BHUBANESWAR: As rains have petered out from many parts of the country, Director-General of India Meteorological Department (IMD) Dr L S Rathore on Monday said an active Pacific region may have contributed to a weakened monsoon. “With a large number of systems forming over the Pacific zone, it can have …
Even as India Meteorological Department predicted deficient rainfall in July, Skymet, a private weather agency, today stuck to its forecast of "normal" monsoon in the month. Even as India Meteorological Department predicted deficient rainfall in July, Skymet, a private weather agency, today stuck to its forecast of “normal” monsoon in …
A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale shook the Kashmir valley in the early hours of Tuesday with the epicentre believed to be in the Hindukush mountain range of Afghanistan. "A moderate intensity earthquake occurred at 3:40am today," an official of the local MET department said. "The …
Quantum of rainfall across country during June 1-29 is 182.5 mm The south-west monsoon has been active over Uttarakhand and eastern Madhya Pradesh and the country as a whole has received 18% more rainfall than normal till now, IMD said. With the exception of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, all …
After plentiful rains in June, the Met department expects less than normal precipitation over the next two months and has advised the agriculture ministry to keep a contingency plan ready. According to Laxman Singh Rathore, director general of the India Meteorological Department, rainfall could be deficient by 8% and 10% …
The south-west monsoon has started showing the El Nino impact. With rains vanishing, at least 12 districts of Odisha have reported deficit rainfall in the first month itself, notwithstanding the overall positive picture shown by the State. What is more alarming, the prospects of good showers are not great till …
According to IMD, the country as a whole has received 19% more rainfall than the normal till now, which would help in increasing kharif sowing activities in the next few weeks. The southwest monsoon rains, which had covered the entire country last week ahead of schedule, was vigorous on Sunday …
Indian Air Force helicopters rescued over 100 people from various parts of Amreli, with four helicopters pressed into service. Heavy rains caused by a deep depression over the Arabian Sea have left 70 people dead in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region and parts of South Gujarat since Wednesday. The depression has since …
Incessant rain on Thursday created a flood-like situation in southern and central Kashmir and disrupted the Char Dham Yatra in Uttarakhand as landslides blocked routes to the Himalayan shrines. The Jhelum continued to flow above the danger mark at Sangam in Anantnag and Ram Munshi Bagh in Srinagar, the authorities …
Global climatic conditions have turbocharged the monsoon and given it the momentum to take it up to Kashmir in three to four days, a week ahead of schedule, and accelerate agricultural activity in the grain-bowl states of Punjab and Haryana on the say. Rainfall in June is almost certain to …
Spread of irrigation, rise in drought-tolerant seeds have come as saviour, says study The southwest monsoon might have made a good start, but its future looks bleak, with many models predicting a let up in showers around the first week of July. The picture for north-west India, the country's premier …
The monsoon is likely to remain strong through the month of June, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday, as another storm system developed over the Bay of Bengal, promising widespread rain across central and south India over the next four-five days. As on June 18, the monsoon was 10% …
PUNE: Less rainfall in July, August and September seems more likely now, as a fresh forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has indicated that El Nino will get stronger during this period of monsoon. This forecast is in tandem with the department's earlier prediction of a deficient rainfall this …
Marathwada, which has the second largest storage capacity in dams after the Pune region, has left with the lowest water storage of 5% across all regions of the state on Tuesday. The large, medium and small dams in Marathwada have a collective storage capacity of 7,603 million cubic metres of …
The agriculture ministry has tied up with leading cellular operators to send decision-critical information to farmers through SMS Farmers staying near India Meteorological Department’s 146 weather stations spread across the country would henceforth get instant alerts on possible extreme weather conditions on their mobile phones. Through the special service titled …
The monsoon has got off to a good start after a slightly delayed onset, with widespread showers over the past five days taking the countrywide rain tally to 13% above normal so far this month. The surge in rains has been aided by a favourable weather system in the Indian …
