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 …
Local commissioners appointed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to inspect the Lotus Temple have said there was “visible discoloration of a large number of tiles” on the structure. Acknowledging that they could not establish the reasons for the discoloration, the commissioners have suggested that the Tribunal direct the Geological …
Pre-monsoon rains have produced what looks like an unmatched record this season, delivering excess or normal rainfall for the entire country as at April-end. For the country as a whole, the surplus rain has been estimated at 89 per cent as on Wednesday, according to statistics posted by India Met …
A clear picture is likely to emerge only towards the end of June Rural distress owing to heavy unseasonal rains in March and the prospects of less-than-normal monsoon have made bankers “a cautious lot” at the start of this financial year. However, it is too early to conclude that the …
El Nino is not only expected to affect monsoon in India but also in neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and some parts of Myanmar. The 6th session of the South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF), a sub-regional body of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) devoted to specific monsoon …
Total area impacted across India pegged at 18.9 mn hectares In what could come as bad news for millions of farmers across India, the Australian Weather Bureau (AWB) has said there is triple the normal chance of the El Niño — an extreme weather phenomenon associated with lack of rain …
India has evacuated 2500 stranded Indians, even as a fresh feeble tremor on Monday jolted the battered Himalayan nation. With rumours swirling around about another strong quake hitting Kathmandu, people on Monday are set out to leave the capital in vehicles and on foot, reports said. The death toll in …
India gets 70% of its annual rainfall in the monsoon, which irrigates half the country's farmlands. In 2014, IMD had forecast that rainfall in June-September monsoon season would be 95% of the 50-year average, which is below normal rainfall. In its August review of the forecast, IMD cut the prediction …
Private forecaster Skymet has stuck to its earlier forecast of a normal monsoon this year, unruffled by the weather office's prediction that rainfall in the crucial June-September period would be below par. "I am very confident of our forecast of a normal monsoon this season with a model error of …
IMD's forecast is a good nine percentage points less than that of Skymet The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday forecast that the southwest monsoon this year will be below normal at 93 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA), barely days after another weather forecasting agency, Skymet, said …
Monsoon is expected to be below normal in central India as well, though the India Meteorological Department's region-wise monsoon distribution will be released only in June. A Met department source on Thursday said the experimental forecast has shown that monsoon may be below normal in Central India that includes central …
(Reuters) - India's monsoon rains could be below average in 2015 due to an impact of El Nino weather pattern, which can bring on a dry spell in the region, the weather office said on Wednesday. Rains are expected to be 93 percent of a long-term average, Earth Science Minister …
The weather office predicted that the southwest monsoon will be below normal for the second year in a row in 2015 and indicated that the disruptive El Nino phenomenon could make things worse for India's largely rain-fed farms, raising the spectre of accelerating inflation. "Monsoon rainfall is likely to be …
In 1997, the strongest El Nino in decades drove up temperatures across the world, making it the century's hottest year. Dire predictions were made for the Indian monsoon. But the 1997 monsoon ended at 2% above normal. Five years later, a mild El Nino, less than half the intensity of …
Double whammy for Indian farmers, below normal rain predicted. The southwest monsoon’s overall rainfall prediction for 2015 is 93 per cent, three percentage points below normal. Further the probability of deficit rainfall is higher at 33 per cent over normal rainfall pegged at 28 per cent, Union Minister for Science …
The IMD's monsoon forecast though very preliminary evokes mixed emotions. At 93% of normal, it's less than the 96% level considered nor mal but higher than last year's 88% fig ure. Further fore casts will come in until monsoon arrives in June, but the fact that it is slated to …
Private weather forecaster Skymet predicts that the monsoon this year will hit Kerala coast five days to a week in advance from the usual date of June 1. Skymet forecast also suggests that the pre-monsoon rains and the onset of the four-month-long monsoon season will be strong this year. "The …
Even as global forecasters have upped the chances of 2015 to be an El Nino year to 70 per cent, private weather forecaster Skymet says that the country will receive normal rains during the June-September monsoon season, a welcome news in a country where as much as 60 per cent …
People of Hyderabad Karnataka region continued to reel under severe heat wave conditions with the mercury level touching new heights in almost all the districts, according to observations recorded by the Indian Meteorological Department at 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday. While there was some good rainfall in South Karnataka districts, there …
Amidst the growing debate about the grim situation of air pollution in the national capital, and the Central government again expressing its serious intent to tackle the deterioration of air quality, Delhi’s air quality continued to remain very alarming even on Monday. The Environmental Monitoring and Research Centre, which is …
Farmers facing the vagaries of weather for the past two weeks are on tenterhooks as the Met office has predicted heavy rain and thunderstorm, accompanied with hailstorm in mid and lower hills of Himachal over the next 100 hours. Mid and lower hills suffered extensive damage to rabi crops and …
