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 …
It was a shivery Monday morning form Punekars with the city recording 7.9 degrees Celsius, its lowest temperature so far this winter. Monday morning’s recorded temperature is 6.5 degrees below normal for this time of the year. Pune’s temperature has been fluctuating and deviating from the normal over the last …
The problem of piracy in the Indian ocean is hampering the collection of accurate water surface temperatures by international weather forecasting agencies that indirectly affects India’s long-range forecasts, a top weather scientist has said. India depends upon global agencies for the prediction of El Nino and the Indian Ocean Diapole …
A slew of short and long-term measures including ban on entry of commercial vehicles not bound for Delhi, restriction on use of diesel generator sets during social functions, imposition of Rs.2,000 fine on polluting vehicles and expediting the construction of the eastern and western peripheral expressways and rapid increase in …
Oslo The Indian monsoon is likely to fail more often in the next 200 years, threatening food supplies, unless governments agree how to limit climate change, a study showed on Tuesday. The monsoon rains could collapse about every fifth year between 2150 and 2200 with continued global warming, blamed mainly …
Delhiites will have to settle for a smog-ridden Diwali this year. The thick haze that has settled over the city is not expected to dissipate in the coming week. Dr L.S. Rathore, director general of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), said, “A low density dust-ridden fog has spread its tentacles …
The monsoon is likely to fail more often in the next 200 years threatening food supplies, unless governments agree how to limit climate change, a study showed on Tuesday. The monsoon rains could collapse about every fifth year between 2150 and 2200 with continued global warming, blamed mainly on human …
The Indian monsoon is likely to fail more often in the next 200 years threatening food supplies, unless governments agree how to limit climate change, a study showed on Tuesday. The monsoon rains could collapse about every fifth year between 2150 and 2200 with continued global warming, blamed mainly on …
India, which relies heavily on the monsoon rains for its vital agriculture sector, may suffer “frequent and severe” failures in its monsoon system due to global warming in next 200 years, a new research has warned. The effects of this unprecedented decline in rainfall by 40-70 per cent would be …
The heavy smog that has set in earlier than usual and enveloped the Capital like a huge cloak for over a week has triggered a rash of respiratory tract infections and other health problems. The sometimes blinding smog - the result of a noxious cocktail of winter chill and traffic …
BHUBANESWAR: The South West Monsoon withdrew from most parts of Odisha on Monday signalling the end of rainy season which recorded a rare zero percent deviation this year. The India Meteorological Department announced that monsoon withdrew from Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Balangir, Nuapada, Sonepur, Kalahandi, Deogarh and parts of the …
Microzonation, on a scale of 1:10,000, is being carried out to formulate building codes specific to areas in the city. High damage risk zone — technically termed as Zone IV— is what Delhi has been defined as. In simple words, this means Delhi has the structural make to be the …
Within just a week, starting August 1, these states received about half the rainfall they receive over an entire year Heavy rainfall leading to flash floods in Himalayan rivers in July-end devastated three states — Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. It claimed 34 human lives and damaged property …
Jaisalmer: Rajasthan’s desert region has gone from grey to green in little more than a month. In a dramatic late surge in the monsoon here, the threat of drought that loomed large over the region in mid-August has given way to gushing rivers and water bodies filled to the brim …
Prediction Pangs: In August, the weatherman said it would be a poor show on the rain front in September due to the El Nino effect Now the seasonal rains seem to be in no hurry to leave or taper off. According to the latest forecast, conditions are not favourable for …
The government conceded in Parliament Wednesday that the accuracy of long-range monsoon forecasts in the last four years had only been about 50 per cent, an admission that is expected to strengthen critics of the Met department who have questioned the credibility of its estimates. Every year, the India Meteorological …
New Delhi Four states — Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan — have declared drought in over 390 talukas as so far and central teams will visit these states to assess the situation, Parliament was informed on Friday. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said …
Four states have declared drought in over 390 talukas so far. Central teams will visit Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan to assess the situation, Parliament was informed on Friday. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said rainfall deficiency was 12 per cent so far. …
About 50,000 farmers in 10 districts of Maharashtra are expected to benefit from a pilot project which will disseminate weather-related inputs using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve land productivity and boost crop output. It is being launched jointly by the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (Nabard) …
It's a season that inspires and engages everyone, from the farmer to the policy maker. From the scientist to the travel writer. From the economist to the music critic, and from the botanist to the epicure. In a year in which the monsoon has played truant, Down To Earth invited …
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 below 90% of the long period average rain. Northwest India, where the rain of the past two …
