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 …
Mumbai/Ahmedabad, June 25: Amid fears of drought due to delayed monsoon, several parts of Western India received sporadic rainfall on Thursday with Met office forecasting favourable conditions for advance of southwest monsoon into Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. However, rains played truant in Central India including Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Monsoon …
AHMEDABAD: Torrential rains lashed Saurasthra and adjoining areas on the second consecutive day on Wednesday even as the Met department predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall over Saurashtra, Kutch and Diu by Thursday evening. However, rains continued to play hide and seek in Ahmedabad, showing up only in the form …
AHMEDABAD: A storm threat loomed over the south Gujarat and Saurashtra coasts on Tuesday heralding the onset of monsoon in the state. The Met department warned moderate to heavy rains and thunderstorm activity in northern and southern parts of the state, including Kutch, in 48 hours beginning Tuesday morning. India …
IMD has been predicting a normal monsoon during the June-September season since March. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) seems to have taken a cautious stand over the World Meteorological Organisation
Ahmedabad : India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ahmedabad is set to procure a state-of-the-art Doppler Radar to track weather conditions more accurately in and around city. According to IMD officials, this sophisticated weather prediction system that can detect weather conditions within a radius of 500 km, will be in place by …
The agriculture ministry is preparing a contingency plan to prevent food shortage---------- For the first time in 30 years, India stares at the probability of a drought, which threatens to worsen the already precarious food demand-supply balance and plunge the country into a deeper food security crisis. The agriculture ministry …
New Delhi: Temperatures are expected to soar over the next few days in Delhi and other parts of the country with the movement of monsoon clouds towards north and northwest India taking a pause. Delhi could again see 40-plus temperatures over the next couple of days though occasional thundershowers could …
Mumbai There are chances of rains in Mumbai by the weekend, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday. If the southwest monsoon arrives by the weekend, it would be 10 days after its normal arrival. K Sathidevi, director IMD, said that the IMD is pinning its hopes on some …
New Delhi: There is further trouble on the monsoon front. The northward advance of the monsoon is likely to be held up by another week leading to a delay in the sowing of Kharif crops in most of central and north peninsular India. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday …
BHUBANESWAR: With monsoon playing truant and there is no sign of its revival in the next one week, kharif operations, particularly direct sown paddy in up-land and medium land, will be considerably delayed. As majority of the cultivable area is rainfed, delay in the onset of monsoon will upset the …
No winter This could be a recipe for more natural disasters, like the 2005 deluge, says Nidhi Jamwal The climate in Indian cities like Mumbai is warming up fast a one-off event. The climate in Indian cities, like Mumbai, is warming up fast and this could be a recipe for …
SANTOSH K. KIRO Ranchi, June 9: It is rise of the machines to predict the unpredictable. Three months from now, the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) will have in place as many as 20 automatic weather stations (AWS) to collate data on temperature, humidity, wind speed and wind direction in all …
Mumbai The current hot and sultry weather of Mumbai is here to stay, at least for a while, with no monsoon activity at sight on the western coast, the India Meteorology Department (IMD) said on Sunday. The maximum temperature in Mumbai hovered around 35.5
The India Meteorological Department defines heat waves under two categories. The first category includes places where the normal maximum temperature is more than 40
