The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people and a major increase in international remittances. The report highlights that international migration remains a driver of human development and economic growth, highlighted …
MEERUT: With the city registering a pleasant 36 degree Centigrade on May 1, the Met department has predicted the entire month would follow the trend. The meteorological department's records show that the city experienced its hottest May 1 in 2014, when the mercury touched 43.1°C, whereas this year it was …
When does an El Nino (warming of the east and equatorial Pacific) create widespread rain deficit over India during the monsoon? K Srikanth, Chennai-based blogger and weather enthusiast, has found from a study that between 1950 and 2012, five years have seen 50 per cent or more meteorological divisions suffer …
MIAMI – The world’s largest hurricane simulator is now complete, and experts hope it will improve forecasters’ ability to predict how strong a storm will get, which has been a key weak spot for science until now. The $15 million wind and wave machine at the University of Miami Rosenstiel …
China will ban unofficial weather forecasts starting Friday, as citizens criticised the government for further encroaching on a seemingly harmless hobby. The new regulations ban predictions on a wide variety of indicators from "wind speed, air temperature, humidity" to predicting disasters like "typhoons", "sandstorms" and "haze", according to the China …
India gets 70% of its annual rainfall in the monsoon, which irrigates half the country's farmlands. In 2014, IMD had forecast that rainfall in June-September monsoon season would be 95% of the 50-year average, which is below normal rainfall. In its August review of the forecast, IMD cut the prediction …
India gets 70% of its annual rainfall in the monsoon, which irrigates half the countrys farmlands. Last year, IMD had forecast that rainfall in June-September monsoon season would be 95% of the 50-year average, which is below normal rainfall. In its August review of the forecast, IMD cut the prediction …
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 …
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 …
VIENNA: Climate change is predicted to intrude into almost every area of life -- from where we live, to what we eat and whom we war with. Now music can be added to the list. That's the unusual idea put forward by British researchers Tuesday, who say the weather has …
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 …
Of the un-insured, 46% were found to be aware but not interested while 24% said that the facility was not available to them As millions of farmers in northern states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and elsewhere face the wrath of unseasonal rain and hailstorms, a recent study …
A US government weather forecaster on Thursday raised its forecast for the chance of El Nino conditions during the Northern Hemisphere summer to 70 per cent, up from a 60 per cent chance last month, with a 60 per cent chance it lasts through autumn. The Climate Prediction Centre, an …
The Central Water Commission (CWC) India’s leading water resources body which provides flood forecasts and predictions, surprisingly lacks flood monitoring system for Jammu and Kashmir. CWC issues flood alerts and monitors the situation so that the states under the threat get ready to tackle with the flood like circumstances. However …
There may be a new and better method for predicting the number of hurricanes in an upcoming season. Scientists have created a new model that improves on the accuracy of seasonal hurricane forecasts for the North Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico by an impressive 23 percent. Hurricanes can be …
Kenya should invest in smart agricultural practices to mitigate its exposure to climate change which has affected production, hampered food security and fight against poverty, a new World Bank report shows. The study titled 'Increasing agricultural production and resilience through Improved agro-meteorological services' that recommends investment in early warning systems …
Weather scientists from the US, Japan and Europe expect India's monsoon rainfall to be normal this year, a welcome news for a country that lacks adequate irrigation facilities in its farms and is largely dependent on rains. The forecasters see a 50-60% chance for the rain-disrupting El Nino phenomenon to …
Sri Lanka’s indigenously developed device could help other developing nations, too, deal with climate impacts A low cost mobile weather station made in Sri Lanka can capture and transmit near real-time data on rainfall. It raises alarm in the event of extreme rainfall and other natural disasters, which can help …
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The World Bank is working with other development finance institutions to raise some $500 million (320 million pounds) to modernise weather and flood forecasting services in Africa. Daniel Kull, a disaster risk specialist with the World Bank, said it was talking to lenders, including the …
The properties of European wind storms under present climate conditions are estimated on the basis of surface wind forecasts from the European Center of Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) Ensemble Prediction System (EPS). While the EPS is designed to provide forecast information of the range of possible weather developments starting from …
