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 …
The monsoon was 90.3% of normal in July, according to nationwide figures released by the Met department on Thursday. The month started on a sluggish note before a revival in rains around July 10, which also coincided with the fading away of the El Nino threat. The actual countrywide average …
Experts Foresee A Mild El Nino Later This Year The biggest threat to this year’s monsoon seems to have receded. El Nino conditions building up in the Pacific have eased in the past month, prompting the Australian weather bureau to withdraw its El Nino ‘alert’ on Tuesday. The bureau downgraded …
The heavy rains that hit Kerala this monsoon has claimed 29 lives till Thursday, though the state is experiencing deficient rains this season. Indian meteorological department (Imd) officials anticipate that the monsoon is gearing up as reorts show regular and strng rains in the days to come.. However, State disaster …
Rammasun Course To Decide Monsoon Strength' Much depends on the course typhoon Rammasun takes in the coming days, though India Meteorological Department officials are concerned that it will affect the monsoon in India. If Rammasun becomes very intense and moves towards Japan, it may weaken the monsoon here further. However, …
For the first time this season, the total rainfall received in Mumbai has exceeded the required figures. Rainfall at Colaba and Santa Cruz stood at 178.5mm and 75.6mm above normal respectively. Weather officials say this means the monsoon in the city is now on track. In the 24-hour spell of …
Drought fears will subside if the momentum generated is maintained in August After playing truant for almost 45 days, the southwest monsoon has started showing strong signs of revival in the critical western, central and northern parts of the country since Tuesday but this has not totally erased fears of …
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit Pakistan-occupied Gilgit late on Tuesday night and resultant mild tremors were felt in Doda and Kishtwar districts of Jammu and Kashmir. The quake struck Gilgit at 9.05 p.m., the Indian Meteorological department said. No casualty, damage However, no report of casualty …
The government will have to regulate the supply of water for irrigation and drinking in western and parts of southern India as exceptionally weak monsoon has rapidly depleted reservoirs that normally start filling up rapidly by the end of June and provide water for the rest of the year. The …
Centre keeps close watch, prays for rain revival; area under paddy, coarse cereals at 5-year low till now With the southwest monsoon's progress a worry, the Union department of agriculture is keeping a close watch on 38 districts across the country where the rainfall condition till June has been alarming …
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation and the district administration have failed to come up with a contingency plan to tackle the imminent water crisis the city is likely to face in the near future. In fact, they are relying on the Indian Meteorological Department's forecast of heavy rains in the …
Odisha received 56% less rain by the end of June, according a rainfall report of India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday. The monsoon had hit the state on June 18, eight days behind schedule. The rainfall in 19 of 29 districts in Odisha is being treated as scanty, which is …
India, the world’s second-biggest rice, sugar and cotton grower, recorded the lowest June rainfall since 2009 amid predictions for an El Nino that previously caused droughts and cut crop output, the state forecaster said. The country got 92.4 millimeters (3.6 inches) of rain last month, or 43 percent less than …
Pune recorded only 13.8 mm rain, which is the lowest since 1970 Pune: Punekars should be worried, as June proved to be the worst month in terms of rainfall. The normal rainfall in this month, according to statistics, is 137mm. In fact, if India Meteorological Department (IMD) records are to …
South-west monsoon is yet to pick up in full vigour although June is at an end Concern is building as the monsoon rains that generally arrive in the first week of June have been delayed in the Cauvery region though the situation is not serious enough to cause any anxiety. …
PUNE: The El Nino phenomenon, which weather forecasts had said would have a severe impact on the Indian monsoon, is showing signs of weakening. Sources in the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday that the occurrence of El Nino was now 60% as against an earlier prediction of 80%. …
Quick Thinking Of A Plan In March After IMD's Forecast Would Have Saved More Water The Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) delay in deciding about a water cut may cost the city heavily if the rain stays put. In March, the India Meteorology Department (IMD) had forecast a deficient monsoon. However, …
With the cumulative rainfall recorded in the country till June 24 being 38 per cent below the long period average, this year will be only the twelfth time in the last 113 years (1901-2013) when there has been over 30 per cent deficiency of rainfall in the country in June. …
NEW DELHI: Drought-like conditions are intensifying as the monsoon hasn't moved an inch for 10 days now, leaving oilseeds, pulses and paddy fields parched and posing the threat of food inflation and weak rural demand in the first year of the Narendra Modi government. Prices of vegetables and onions are …
Weather experts have confirmed that the El Nino effect is adversely impacting this year's monsoon. The cumulative rainfall in the country till June 18 has been 45% below the long period average (LPA) as per the recent analysis by the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The analysis indicates that from June …
