Weather Predictions

World migration report 2024

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 …

Govt seeks daily weather updates

New Delhi: Worried over rain playing spoilsport in the run-up to the Games, the government on Monday asked the Govt seeks daily weather updates Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) to provide weather updates on daily basis. Such is the importance of good weather that it found more than a mention at …

Climate change, its impacts and possible community based responses in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and negative effects are already taking place. Increasing temperatures, increased precipitation, thermal expansion of the Bay of Bengal and melting of the glaciers in the Himalayas will all have great impacts for Bangladesh and with a high population density …

Radar in, but wont be put to use before monsoon is out

Almost five months after the state-of-the-art radar, S Band, arrived in the city for more accurate weather prediction, it seems that the technology will not be put to use this monsoon. The reason: India Meteorological Department is yet to finish the earthing and wiring which would make the radar operational. …

North gets wetter, alert in South

         Incessant rain triggered flash floods in Rajouri and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir HEAVY rains lashed most parts of north India for another day on Wednesday, triggering flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir and pushing up water levels in rivers of Punjab and Haryana resulting in flooding of more …

North very very wet, East stares at drought

Amitabh Sinha Monsoon showers in the last few days have almost completely wiped out the overall rainfall deficit of this season, but entire eastern India continues to reel under an abnormally dry spell and now faces a second successive year of serious drought.As of Wednesday, there is almost 25 per …

Experts lack equipment to predict cloudbursts

Mandi, August 8Scientists and meteorologists attribute the catastrophic flash floods and cloudbursts to climatic shift, but they still grope in the dark to predict these

Agriculture Department likely to launch website to help farmers

P. Sudhakar www.tnagrisnet.tn.gov.in will clearly explain all welfare schemes Website to give information on the schemes, subsidies and farming programmes

Monsoon weakening in MP

Monsoon is displaying signs of weakening in Madhya Pradesh even while some parts of the state received heavy rainfall today. The cyclonic condition prevailing over Gujarat had trigerred good rainfall in many parts of the state. During the next 24 hours, there is a possibility of rainfall in Indore and …

Rain relief in sight for Jharkhand

Jamshedpur, July 25: A parched Jharkhand can look forward to some relief in the next two days. The Patna Meteorological Office, which monitors weather conditions in the state, has forecast widespread rainfall over Jharkhand in the next 48 hours.

Rains remain spotty but forecast stays rosy

IMD: Nothing Unusual About Dry Spell, Monsoon Will Pick Up Pune: For those in parts of India confused by predictions of a soggy season and consequently a bumper crop and the contrasting reality of a dry spell, there

37 automatic weather stations set up in State

BHUBANESWAR: Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management Surjya Narayan Patro today informed the Assembly that the Ministry of Earth Science had set up 37 automatic weather stations in the State. To a question from Rajendra Kumar Das (BJD), the Minister said there is a proposal to set up such weather …

Where are the clouds?

BHUBANESWAR: More sun, less rain. The monsoon seems to have left Orissa high and dry. And with no sign of any weather system forming over the next week or so, worse might be in store. At present, farmers cannot go ahead with the weeding process as the farmlands have dried …

Is snow a rainkiller?

FOR TWO decades snowfall was one of the parameters Indian meteorologists used to predict monsoon in the subcontinent. They believed there was an inverse relation between snowfall in the Himalaya and monsoon; the wider the snow cover, the weaker the rainfall. But since 2007 the India Meteorological Department has dismissed …

Weatherman forecasts better monsoon days now

NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department on Thursday forecast that there could be some improvement in the monsoon situation over North India this coming week. According to the latest bulletin, fairly widespread rain or thundershowers could occur over Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh, scattered rainfall over Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya …

Is snow a rainkiller?

Snowfall in the Himalaya and Tibetan plateau affects monsoon. For two decades snowfall was one of the parameters Indian meteorologists used to predict monsoon in the subcontinent. They believed there was an inverse relation between snowfall in the Himalaya and monsoon; the wider the snow cover, the weaker the rainfall. …

Met says chances of rain during October Games

New Delhi: The India Meteorological department (IMD) is not ruling out possibility of rains during the Commonwealth Games. With monsoon in northwest India delayed and La Nina conditions developing fast over the central Pacific ocean

Monsoon may be delayed by another week

P. Sunderarajan NEW DELHI: The onset of the southwest monsoon over Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of north India is likely to be delayed by at least one more week. Speaking to The Hindu, Director-General of India Meteorological Department Ajit Tyagi said the monsoon flow had once again become …

Flood of prayers for rains in Abad

Monsoon To Remain Elusive For A Week Ahmedabad: City mayor Kanaji Thakore is expected to perform the prajanya-yagna in Madhavpura on Sunday, during which he will sit in a vessel full of water, and pray for rain. Thakore will be joined by scores of citizens who are enduring fasts and …

Now, a weather-based insurance for farmers

BHUBANESWAR: With rain God playing truant and frightening rise in farmers

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