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 …
HEAVY rains with strong gales lashed coastal Andhra region on Wednesday as authorities began forceful evacuation from low-lying areas with the cyclonic storm set for landfall on Thursday morning. The storm, christened Laila, lay centred at 320 km south-southwest of Machilipatnam and is set to cross the Andhra coast between …
KOCHI: Rains lashed the city on Wednesday bringing traffic and life to a standstill. People huddled in front of shops and business establishment seeking shelter from the sudden downpour.
The Andhra Pradesh coast may escape severe battering by cyclonic storm Laila that is showing signs of weakening before hitting the seashore. However, heavy rains with gales, which killed 10 people, brought normal life to a halt in the coastal region. Weather officials forecast that the cyclonic storm may not …
Pune Even as cyclonic storm Laila has brought a lull in the movement of the south-west monsoon, Met officers are hopeful that it will not delay the onset date of the monsoons touching the Kerala coast on May 30. National Climate Centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune, director Dr …
NEW DELHI: The depression in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm, and lies centred 400 km east of Chennai on Tuesday evening. According to a bulletin issued by the India Meteorological Department, the system is likely to intensify further and cross the Andhra Pradesh coast, between …
Ahmedabad: If you expected some respite from the scorching heat, this may not be music to your ears. All hopes of mercury level in Ahmedabad coming down from Sunday onwards were dashed after development of cyclonic storm Laila over south-west and adjoining south-east and west-central Bay of Bengal. The earlier …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Climate experts at the first South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SACOF) meet comprising South Asian countries who met in Pune last week believe the monsoon this year could be less than normal. Countries attending the meet included Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, all of whom …
P. Sunderarajan NEW DELHI: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday announced that the Southwest Monsoon was likely to set in over Kerala on May 30. The forecast was subject to a model error of plus or minus four days. In a press release, the IMD also said the monsoon …
a tornado accompanied by thunder squall hit parts of northern Bengal and Bihar on the night of April 13 reviving memories of cyclone Aila last year. The meteorological department gave no warning; 129 persons died when the winds blowing at 120-130 km per hour caught them unawares. The storm was …
KOCHI: The monsoon is likely to hit Kerala earlier than usual, most probably by the last week of May. With the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting a normal southwest monsoon this year, everybody is waiting for the weathermen to release their forecast on when it would start raining. However, there …
Ahmedabad: Thursday could be the hottest day of the season in the city with prevailing heat wave conditions making life even more difficult for denizens. Rising mercury levels in the state have already claimed two lives in Saurashtra region. In Ahmedabad, temperatures touched a record 44.5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, …
The south west monsoon is likely to hit the Kerala coast on June 1. According to preliminary observations made by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) here, there is nothing to indicate that the monsoon will arrive before or after the scheduled date.
If the rain gods play truant, the much-awaited decline in food inflation is unlikely to happen N Chandra Mohan / May 8, 2010, 1:05 IST Much like the passage of the four seasons, the south-west monsoon arrives with unfailing regularity. But the amount of rainfall and its spread over time …
Goa Meteorological Department will be installing eight Automatic Rain Gauge (ARG) stations across the State to ensure there is real time mapping of the rainfall.
The Union government proposes to have a National Mission on Monsoon in the hope that a concerted effort will improve monsoon prediction. The dry bed of the Korampallam tank, used for irrigation in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu in October 2009. The year saw a severe drought, with large deficits in rainfall …
Given IMD?s past record on forecasts, the latest one could also go wrong Surinder Sud / New Delhi May 6, 2010, 0:03 IST Can you trust India Meteorological Department
