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 Indian Meteorological Department has sounded a cyclone alert for Gujarat and Maharashtra. A depression over the Arabian Sea is likely to intensify in the coming days and move towards the north and northeast. WINDS AT 75 KMPH PREDICTED A depression over the Arabian sea is likely to intensify in …
The weather has been in the news for all the wrong reasons across India this year. Typically, a 10 per cent shortage over 20 per cent of the country qualifies as a drought, according to the Indian Meteorological Department
New Delhi: Monday recorded the lowest minimum temperature of 13.5 degrees Celsius in October in the past 10 years, though the day continued to be warm with a maximum temperature of 31 degree Celsius (one degree below normal). Met department officials said the absence of any western disturbances is the …
The Southwest Monsoon has withdrawn from the NE region. This was announced by the India Meteorology Department (IMD) yesterday. According to sources in the Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) here, the South West Monsoon withdrew from Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Vidarbha, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathawada and Konkan, entire West Bengal and Sikkim, Orissa, …
New Delhi: After its predictions went wrong this year, the weather office is mulling doing away with issuing summer monsoon forecasts and replacing them with weather outlook for every month, a top official on Thursday said. The monsoon forecast of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) went awry this year with …
Sample this. For October 1, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) average rain forecast over Raichur district was 27 mm. However, the district was rainwashed with an unprecedented downpour of 198 mm on that day. Similarly, over Bellary, IMD forecast for October 2 was 68 mm, while the actual incidence recorded …
CHENNAI: A normal or above normal north-east monsoon is expected this year, Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Ajit Tyagi, Director-General, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said here on Thursday. Speaking to reporters after inaugurating the High Performance Computing System at the Regional Meteorological Centre, Dr. Tyagi said that the monsoon was expected …
Mumbai Mumbai's weather has been erratic since December, an indication of the worldwide phenomenon of climate change, says Dr R V Sharma, deputy director general, India Meteorological Department (IMD). The city had 76 mm rain on Monday with the maximum temperature plummeting to an uncharacteristic 24.7
The maximum and minimum temperatures of the city remained above their normal quotients even today, though there was cloud cover for some hours over the city. Today, the city recorded a maximum temperature of 36.7 degree Celsius and a minimum temperature of 26.7 degree Celsius. However, the Regional Meteorological Centre …
On India Meteorological Department using statistical models instead of dynamical ones for forecasting Tell me which dynamical model has given correct forecasts for India? The forecasts for Indian monsoons given by the US, UK and Europe in April this year (using dynamical models) threw up different predictions. None of them …
Sept. 23: The deficient rainfall has turned 50 lakh acres of fertile fields in the state into brownish barren swathes of land. With the southwest monsoon coming to a close by the month-end, there is no relief possible now and food grain production is likely to be just half of …
P. Sunderarajan NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said the southwest monsoon is all set to withdraw, even as the deficiency in the cumulative rainfall for the season as a whole increased marginally from 20 to 21 per cent over the past week. In a press release, …
A week of subdued rainfall activity has marginally deepened the seasonal rainfall deficit in the country, indicating beginning of the withdrawal of the monsoon season.
Helsinki: A Finnish company has signed a $1.4-million deal with the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) to provide 60 hi-tech automatic weather stations (AWS) and equipment to predict weather accurately during the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Vaisala, which has been developing environmental and industrial instruments for the past 70 years …
A prominent player in the weather measurement business, Finnish company Vaisala won a one 1-million euro tender in August to set up 60 automatic weather stations across Delhi to provide high-quality weather services for the Commonwealth Games next year. Though the contract has not been signed yet
BHUBANESWAR: Heavy rains lashed large parts of north coastal Orissa as the deep depression moved further away from Jamshedpur. The system and an active monsoon ensured heavy showers on Sunday. Some areas received close to 20 cm rains during the last 24 hours, the weather office said. The deep depression, …
Mumbai Continuous rainfall over the last few days has raised the levels of the six lakes that supply water to Mumbai, with three of them inching closer to their full supply level. Modak Sagar, Tansa and Upper Vaitarna are just inches short of overflowing. Modak Sagar Lake has touched 161.83 …
