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 …
A Raman J E GEISTER MAINTAINED DETAILED RECORDS ON WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR FIVE YEARS A scientific documentation by Walford in 1879 indicates rain, frost, drought, and meteorological phenomena as the key factors for fam ines arising consequent to changed patterns in climate. Given that even in the UK, a powerful …
There are three different types of drought, not one. There is a meteorological drought, when actual rainfall is deficient (20 per cent below normal) or scanty (60 per cent or more below normal). The Indian Meteorological Department has now declared a deficiency of 29 per cent in the south-west monsoon. …
Madden-Julian Oscillation May Counter El Nino New Delhi: The flagging monsoon may just get a shot of adrenaline that could counter the ill effects of this year
The overall flood situation in the State has improved considerably with the improvement in the weather condition, said Water Resources department (WRD) sources here. So far, reports of 18 breaches in the embankments of the Jiadhol-Kumatia in Dhemaji district, Kakoi, Ranganadi, Singara, Dorpang in Lakhimpur district and Brahmajan channel in …
Met Department Says Rains Might Return Tomorrow Ahmedabad: Monsoon has taken a break and there has been not a single spell of shower since July 27. However, there seems to be some good news in store as the monsoon is expected to revive by August 13. However, the rains this …
NEW DELHI: With the monsoon showing no sign of any major recovery, the India Meteorological Department late on Monday decided to reduce its estimate of rainfall during the season to 87 per cent for the country as a whole and for the season in its entirety. This marks a reduction …
New Delhi: Though the government is still chary of pronouncing a full-scale crisis over the errant monsoon and depleted sowing, prospects of more parts of the country being declared drought affected are increasing with the Met department on Monday downgrading its rainfall forecast from 93% of long-term average to 87%. …
Kaustubh Kulkarni / Pune/mumbai/new Delhi August 11, 2009, 0:25 IST After being in denial mode, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) today pared its forecast for a second time in three months and said state governments were free to announce
Aug. 9: Hyderabad is the worst affected among seven Telangana districts, failing to get any rain in the last week, according to the Indian Meteorological Department
Weather predictions are expected to be more accurate in future in Madhya Pradesh as the state Met Department has decided to install imported radar in the city, official sources said. Union Ministry of Earth Sciences has accorded approval for installing a Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) atop of a proposed ten-storeyed …
The BMC launched its website, www.mumbaimonsoon.com, on Friday so that citizens can get better information on rainfall data, high tide dates and timings, waterlogged areas as well as traffic, among other things. The civic administration has set up automated weather stations at 29 places across the city, through which rainfall …
Archita Bhatta and Rohini Rangarajan Met department is not the only one predicting weather in India. Forecasts are now sold by businesses to businesses
Farmers are opting for weather-based crop insurance due to frequent weather disturbances. Prashant Bachhav is one of them. He has six hectares (ha) in Nashik district in Maharashtra. Monsoon normally arrives in Nashik by June 10. Accordingly, Bachhav sowed jowar and bajra by mid-June. This year rainfall was sparse in …
Aparna Pallavi and Archita Bhatta From what to sow to when to reap, farmers need weather forecast at every step. It can make or break them The monsoon forecast in May said India would receive good rains this year, and the onset was predicted for the first week of June. …
The Indian Meteorological Department has warned that heavy to very heavy rainfall will be witnessed in southwest Madhya Pradesh, north-central Maharashtra, north Konkan and south Rajasthan in the next 24 hours. At some places, the rainfall can be extremely heavy crossing the 25-cm mark. The Indian Meteorological Department has warned …
Pune The city on Wednesday saw a lot of wind activity in most places, along with incessant rains. Even as the wind velocity in the city on Tuesday was five nautical miles per hour (knots), it was low on Wednesday but could continue to scale up with the monsoon activity …
Pravda Godbole / Pune July 15, 2009, 0:35 IST The India Meteorological Department (IMD) today maintained there would be a normal monsoon in the country this year. A B Mazumdar, Deputy Director General of Meteorology (Weather Forecasting), IMD, Pune, said:
