Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled “CSE report finds dangerous increase in ozone pollution across urban India” appearing in Down to Earth dated 06.08.2024. The Principal Bench of the NGT heard the matter on March 21, 2025. In the original application, registered suo …
El Nino is not only expected to affect monsoon in India but also in neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and some parts of Myanmar. The 6th session of the South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF), a sub-regional body of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) devoted to specific monsoon …
Total area impacted across India pegged at 18.9 mn hectares In what could come as bad news for millions of farmers across India, the Australian Weather Bureau (AWB) has said there is triple the normal chance of the El Niño — an extreme weather phenomenon associated with lack of rain …
Private forecaster Skymet has stuck to its earlier forecast of a normal monsoon this year, unruffled by the weather office's prediction that rainfall in the crucial June-September period would be below par. "I am very confident of our forecast of a normal monsoon this season with a model error of …
All of the representative concentration pathways (RCPs) assume that future emissions of aerosols and aerosol precursors will decline sharply. There is considerable evidence that historically increasing aerosols have substantially affected tropical precipitation, but the effects of projected aerosol declines have received little attention. We compare projections forced by the medium-low …
IMD's forecast is a good nine percentage points less than that of Skymet The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday forecast that the southwest monsoon this year will be below normal at 93 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA), barely days after another weather forecasting agency, Skymet, said …
Monsoon is expected to be below normal in central India as well, though the India Meteorological Department's region-wise monsoon distribution will be released only in June. A Met department source on Thursday said the experimental forecast has shown that monsoon may be below normal in Central India that includes central …
(Reuters) - India's monsoon rains could be below average in 2015 due to an impact of El Nino weather pattern, which can bring on a dry spell in the region, the weather office said on Wednesday. Rains are expected to be 93 percent of a long-term average, Earth Science Minister …
The weather office predicted that the southwest monsoon will be below normal for the second year in a row in 2015 and indicated that the disruptive El Nino phenomenon could make things worse for India's largely rain-fed farms, raising the spectre of accelerating inflation. "Monsoon rainfall is likely to be …
In 1997, the strongest El Nino in decades drove up temperatures across the world, making it the century's hottest year. Dire predictions were made for the Indian monsoon. But the 1997 monsoon ended at 2% above normal. Five years later, a mild El Nino, less than half the intensity of …
Double whammy for Indian farmers, below normal rain predicted. The southwest monsoon’s overall rainfall prediction for 2015 is 93 per cent, three percentage points below normal. Further the probability of deficit rainfall is higher at 33 per cent over normal rainfall pegged at 28 per cent, Union Minister for Science …
The IMD's monsoon forecast though very preliminary evokes mixed emotions. At 93% of normal, it's less than the 96% level considered nor mal but higher than last year's 88% fig ure. Further fore casts will come in until monsoon arrives in June, but the fact that it is slated to …
Rising temperatures across the planet have set more new records, as the US government announced Friday that the globe experienced its hottest month of March since record-keeping began in 1880. The period of January to March was also the warmest on record, said the monthly report by the National Oceanic …
The Indian government recently took a leading role in global efforts to address climate change by proposing a hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) phase-down amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol). The proposed amendment, put forward on 16th April, 2015, would phase down production and consumption …
Private weather forecaster Skymet predicts that the monsoon this year will hit Kerala coast five days to a week in advance from the usual date of June 1. Skymet forecast also suggests that the pre-monsoon rains and the onset of the four-month-long monsoon season will be strong this year. "The …
HFCs have been widely used chemicals as substitute to Ozone Depleting Substances (ODSs). HFCs being non-ODSs are not controlled so far under the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. However, emissions of HFCs are controlled along …
The El Nino risks for this year is rising in India and it could result in sub-par rains, hurting rural demand and food inflation in the country, says a report. According to the Japanese brokerage firm Nomura, the possibility of El Nino conditions is developing this year and this could …
The organic acids present in the aerosols serve as a unique fingerprint in identifying the source of pollution. Contrary to the general assumption that the southern slopes of the Himalayas act as a barrier and effectively block the transportation of pollutants from India and other parts of South Asia, a …
India made a formal proposal to amend the Montreal Protocol to phase down the super greenhouse gas, HFCs, used primarily as refrigerants and to make insulating foams.
At a time when international models suspect that central and equatorial east Pacific is slowly drifting to El Nino conditions, a study on its likely impact on monsoon here has thrown up interesting results. El Nino has no direct correlation with monsoon performance but has generally been viewed with circumspection …
Even as global forecasters have upped the chances of 2015 to be an El Nino year to 70 per cent, private weather forecaster Skymet says that the country will receive normal rains during the June-September monsoon season, a welcome news in a country where as much as 60 per cent …
