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 …
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 …
An international information system designed to improve and expand the exchange of data on weather, climate and water will help boost food security around the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The UN agency, which launched the system last month (31 January), said it would improve access to …
Heavy rains on 18 and 19 September 2010 in the Ganga watershed associated with a regional monsoon event that occurred between Myanmar and Middle East caused disastrous landslips in Uttarakhand, Indian Central Himalaya and floods in the plains of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. Relation between quantum of rainfall per …
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 …
NEW DELHI: Soon farmers across the country can get their agriculture and weather-related queries answered quickly. The Indian government is planning to launch a spoken web service that will provide an interactive medium for the farming community. In a country where close to 60 percent of the 1.21 billion population …
If Monday saw Pune shivering at a 7.2° Celsius, Tuesday is expected to be colder still at 6° Celsius. In fact, the city’s lowest minimum temperature of7.2° this season on Monday morning was a good four degrees below normal. While predicting a further drop to 6° on Tuesday morning, IMD …
THIS year could become one of the top 10 hottest since 1850, with global temperatures expected to be almost half a degree Celsius warmer in 2012 than the long-term (1961-1990) average of 14 degrees, the UK’s Met Office said on Wednesday. The prediction follows provisional figures published by the Met …
Realising the danger faced by people of Chitral due to avalanches, a local youth has invented a machine to warn about movement of avalanche in mountains and highlands. “It will help to minimise the devastation caused by avalanches,” said Mohammad Khalid, who has a master degree in electronics from University …
Even as fog monitoring and analysis at the Indira Gandhi International Airport has improved significantly this season, with very few instances of flight diversions, the Indian Meteorological Department is now in the process of acquiring an Aviation Weather Decision Support System (AWDSS) that would help detect and predict weather hazards …
The temperature thresholds and timings of the 24 climatic Solar Terms in China are determined from a homogenized dataset of the surface air temperature recorded at 549 meteorological stations for the period 1960–2008 employing the ensemble empirical mode decomposition method. Changes in the mean temperature and timing of the climatic …
A "very severe" cyclonic storm lay centered about 250 km off Chennai, with the weather office forecasting winds touching up to 135 kph and advising fishermen against venturing into sea for the next two days. "The very severe cyclonic storm 'Thane' over southwest Bay of Bengal moved west-southwestward and lay …
KOLKATA, 26 DEC: After a spell of chill in the state, days would become cloudier and there may even be light rain over the coastal districts but the season's nip would be missing for the next 24 hours. A depression over south-east Bay of Bengal that moved north-westwards and intensified …
This November, everyone wondered what happened to the winters. So far, the season has been rather lukewarm and promises to be so for the next month or so. With December already halfway through, are we headed for a shorter, warmer winter this time? Winter is only turning a little warmer, …
Two tropical lows off northern Australia could develop into cyclones in coming days as the La Niña weather pattern persists, but pose no immediate threat to mining and crop regions devastated by cyclones and flooding in early 2011. The storms were forming as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology forecast that …
The uncertainty associated with predicting extreme weather events has serious implications for the developing world, owing to the greater societal vulnerability to such events. Continual exposure to unanticipated extreme events is a contributing factor for the descent into perpetual and structural rural poverty. We provide two examples of how probabilistic …
A heavy fog blanketed parts of northern China on Monday, delaying flights and causing hundreds of cancellations, while smog hung in a dark haze over Beijing. As of 2 p.m. (0600 GMT), 126 flights had been delayed by an hour or longer and 207 were cancelled at Beijing, the world's …
A pilot study was conducted to assess the economic impact of weather forecast-based advisories issued to 15 of the 127 Agrometeorological Advisory Service (AAS) units of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. Six seasons comprising three Kharif (summer) and three Rabi (winter) during 2003–2007 were chosen. The major …
This document contains the presentation by Subimal Ghosh, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Bombay on “Finer Scale Temperature and Rainfall Projections under Climate Change” during Second National Research Conference on Climate Change, organized by the Centre for Science and Environment, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras on November 5-6, 2011 at New …
The Maharashtra agriculture department plans to set up tehsil-level weather monitoring centres to give farmers area-specific advisories that will help them determine the crop pattern and anticipate pest and disease outbreaks. The centres are being set up in the public-private partnership mode under which the companies participating will use the …
Taking the public-private partnerships funding model to the next level, Maharashtra government has decided to set up a network of 2,025 automatic weather stations in the State with the help of private companies. The State government will soon invite expressions of interest for setting up the Rs 122-crore project. Each …
