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 …
While fears of a weak Indian monsoon persist, the Australian weather department's latest forecast suggests that El Nino may develop by September, a little later than the previously expected August. This will come as a relief to India's planners since it suggests that the Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon will only …
COIMBATORE: The El Nino phenomenon, which adversely affects the monsoon, is likely to have an impact on the oilseeds production in the country. "India's dependence on imports for edible oil requirement is growing and in case oilseed crop is affected because of poor monsoon, the imports will surge," a senior …
A prolonged heat wave, abetted by a slow moving monsoon, has prompted the Odisha Government to extend the summer vacation of educational institutions in the State. All the schools and colleges will now re-open on June 23, instead of June 17. The Special Relief Commissioner (SRC)’s office on Monday declared …
Visakhapatnam/ Hyderabad: The joy of the approaching monsoon may be limited; the India Meteorological Department has said that the monthly rainfall over the peninsula is likely to be at 93 per cent, which is below normal. The Centre has already begun drawing up contingency plans to tackle the fallout of …
The monsoon is expected to arrive in Pune on Monday , according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). After an eight-day delay , the southwest monsoon finally touched north Konkan, Mumbai and the ghat areas near Pune on Sunday , bringing light rain to the city . IMD officials said …
The maximum temperature is expected to fluctuate between 40 and 44 degree Celsius in the next two days. There was no respite from the blistering heat in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 31.2 degree Celsius, three notches above normal. However, the weatherman has predicted dust storm …
With El Nino looming large over monsoon this year, the state government has pulled up its socks to checkmate the phenomenon. It has drawn up an advance plan to lessen its adverse effect on agriculture. This was decided at a meeting chaired by chief minister Naveen Patnaik here on Tuesday. …
Monsoon rainfall in India, the main source of irrigation for the nation’s 263 million farmers, will be below normal this year as El Nino emerges, weakening prospects for crops from rice to soybeans and sugar and potentially boosting inflation. Showers in the June-September season will be 93 percent of a …
In April, the IMD had predicted a below normal monsoon at 95 per cent. India is going to have a far worse monsoon season than expected. According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the rainfall in June-September is likely to be below normal at 93 per cent of the long …
In disappointing news, India is expected to receive below normal monsoon rainfall of 93 per cent, according to the met department forecast which predicted a reduction of two per cent from the one made initially. "The monsoon season rainfall for the country as a whole between June and September is …
AHMEDABAD: With the maximum temperature at 44.4 degree celsius in the city, Ahmedabad witnessed three more heat-related deaths on Sunday. This took the death toll from the heatwave to 12. On Sunday, the city recorded the second highest temperature in the state after Surendranagar town which recorded a maximum temperature …
Thunderstorm development is a rapid process occurring within a short period of a few hours. Prior to this development, there is a continuous and gradual change in the atmospheric conditions and the conditions just before the time of occurrence of the thunderstorm may be different from the conditions earlier at …
MADURAI: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an alert to the State agriculture department asking it to be prepare a contingency plan to face any eventuality triggered by the El Nino effect (Spanish for boy) this year. Tamil Nadu faces a threat from El Nino, a weather pattern that …
As June inches closer, mercury is soaring across the country. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a statement that heat wave conditions would prevail at a few places over Gangetic West Bengal and at isolated places over Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and southwest Madhya Pradesh. Maximum temperature is expected to go …
The State came under yet another spell of scorching heat wave conditions on Tuesday with 17 cities and towns recording temperature above 40 degrees Celsius and sunstroke death toll rising to 20. While Subarnapur and Titilagarh recorded day’s highest temperature at 44.8 degrees Celsius, capital city Bhubaneswar recorded the season’s …
Loss Of Wetlands And Greenery Turns Kolkata Into A Heat Chamber; City Hotter Than Suburbs By Up To 4 Degrees It’s 6.30pm. The sun is setting. But you still feel as if you were trapped in a microwave. Even at 8pm, there is no respite from the heat, indoors or …
More, water levels in the reservoirs of southern India are below the 10-year average at 8.28 billion cubic metres As doubts mount over the impact of El Niño on the southwest monsoon season in 2014, India's preparedness to face a low rainfall situation seems to have improved in the past …
Weather experts have said there is a “strong possibility” of the emergence of ‘El Nino,’ impacting this year’s monsoon in India. ‘El Nino’ is a phenomenon in which the warmer ocean currents along the Pacific coast of South America, above normal, divert the flow of moist winds from the Indian …
Global warming could be responsible for unprecendent heavy rains that is being witnessed this summer in Kerala and wreaked havoc there, a top scientist said on Thursday. Expressing fears that heavy rains during this season could weaken the southwest Monsoon, Kerala State Disaster Management Authority member Shekhar Lukose Kuriakose said …
The Australian weather bureau on Tuesday declared an El Nino alert, saying there was at least a 70% chance of occurrence of the weather pattern that’s also linked to weak monsoons in India, with some climate models predicting it could set in as early as July. There’s consensus among international …
