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 …
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said the climate models it monitors indicate a possible return of the El Nino weather pattern, often linked to heavy rainfall and droughts, in the second half of 2012. The last severe El Nino in 1998 killed more than 2,000 people and caused billions of dollars …
Met chief says El Nino may affect showers The monsoon is likely to hit the southern tip of the country on time in the first week of June, said India’s top weather department official on Thursday, a week before the official forecast, lifting hopes of better farm output for the …
India’s Cabinet has given its approval to a “National Monsoon Mission,” which will equip the weather department with high-end computers, radars and scientific manpower to generate more detailed and accurate forecasts. India’s current antiquated methods of forecasting the all-important monsoon rains is getting a re-vamp. No other weather phenomenon generates …
NEW DELHI: The rise in sea level by 1.29 millimetre every year along the Indian coastline has not caused any major erosion, science and technology and earth sciences minister Vilasrao Deshmukh informed the Rajya Sabha today. He said during Question Hour that the ministry of environment was conducting a study …
IMD, however, cautions that the monsoon may weaken in August-September due to atmospheric changes in the tropical Pacific India is expected to have a normal monsoon for the third consecutive year, boosting prospects of good harvests and higher rural incomes. “This year, monsoon as a whole is most likely to …
India seemed headed for the third straight year of good monsoon with normal rainfall being predicted for the upcoming June-September season. The Met department will announce on Thursday the preliminary forecast for the four-month season that accounts for almost 90 per cent of India’s annual rainfall. Many scientists believe that …
A consensus outlook for the 2012 southwest monsoon rainfall over South Asia was developed, through an expert assessment of the available indications. The outlook was prepared based on the various prevailing global climate conditions and forecasts from different empirical and dynamical climate models. It is recognized that there is uncertainty …
The country is likely to see normal monsoon this year, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) officials have said, dissipating fears of any drought-like conditions. All indicators point towards a “normal monsoon” just like last year, said a ministry official on Tuesday. There is no adverse atmospheric or oceanic condition that …
Tremors: Residents and fishermen in coastal areas put on tsunami alert Bangalore and most parts of Karnataka are located in the least (seismic) active zone in the country, according to the seismic map of Indian Meteorological Department. The country is divided into five different zones, depending on the seismic activities. …
New Delhi: It’s early days yet, but the first indications from within the country about this year’s monsoon are positive. A new climate model being developed under the government’s ambitious Monsoon Mission project has predicted above average rainfall for the season. The model, still being refined, is based on modern …
India Meteorological Department has implemented district level medium range rainfall forecast system applying multimodel ensemble technique, making use of model outputs of state-of-the-art global models from the five leading global NWP centres.
New Delhi: Delhiites woke up to a haze over the city on Tuesday, with southwesterly air currents carrying dust all the way from the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, and reducing visibility to 1,000 metres. Met officials said the haze would clear substantially on Wednesday as wind …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The century-old Mullaperiyar dam, a bone of contention between the Kerala and Tamil Nadu Governments, may be hydrologically unsafe, but there are many options available for reducing its disaster risk, eminent civil engineering expert A K Gosain said. “Science has progressed fast and technically there are many options available …
After the first phase of its modernisation led to an improvement in the accuracy of forecasts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has embarked on Phase 2, in a bid to increase its forecasting capabilities. IMD Director Dr B P Yadav said that the department would install at least two automatic …
The earthquake today that jolted the National Capital and the adjoining NCR region has brought the safety of buildings in and around the capital back into focus. Two other temblors had hit the area in the past six months. Strong tremors that lasted almost 10 seconds at 1.11 pm today …
It was a relatively minor earthquake but it left many Delhiites shaken, if not quite stirred, on Monday. An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale was recorded in Haryana’s Bahadurgarh area at 1.11pm, about 30km from the capital, causing many people to rush out of homes and offices. Fortunately, …
An earthquake of magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale hit the Bahadurgarh region on Delhi-Haryana border around 1 p.m. on Monday.Terming the quake as of "slight" magnitude, experts at the India Meteorological Department said preliminary estimates indicated that it occurred at the depth of 9 km. There were no …
Tremors from what appeared to be a sizeable earthquake struck the Indian capital Monday, with the aftershocks lasting several seconds. The quake was felt at approximately 1:10 p.m. local time. A spokesman at the Earthquake Operations Center at the India Meteorological Department, based in New Delhi, attributed the tremors felt …
Indo-UK Study To Find If Climate Change Affecting Seasonal Rains How will climate change affect the Indian monsoon in the coming years and decades? Given the crucial importance of the annual rains for the country’s food and water needs, scientists from 10 institutions in India and the UK have mounted …
Experts looking at global climate models say there’s a good chance that February and March too will see below normal temperatures. As several parts of India reel under a cold spell, here's worse news: expect the rest of the winter to be colder than usual. Experts looking at global climate …
