The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological Department continuously monitors weather and climate over Indian region. The annual mean land surface air temperature averaged over India during 2023 was …
Scientists are coming to grips with how weather in Antarctica is influencing climate as far away as the tropics. For example, researchers at Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center have discovered an influence of atmospheric circulation in the Wilkes Land and Ross Sea regions of Antarctica on precipitation from the …
This report is based on the Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Agricultural Households conducted in the 70th round of NSS during January 2013 to December 2013. The survey, conducted in the rural areas of the country with its two visits, was spread over 4529 villages covering 35200 households. This report …
The outbreak of Zika virus in Central and South America is of immediate concern to pregnant women in the region, but for some experts the situation is a glimpse of the sort of public health threats that will unfold due to climate change. “Zika is the kind of thing we’ve …
El Niño conditions have caused the lowest recorded rainfall between October and December across many regions of Southern Africa in at least 35 years, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reported in its latest report. The agency found that short-term forecasts from January to March indicate the high …
Residents in Nyamugari Sector, Kirehe District have appealed for help following a heavy downpour that hit the area three days ago. The residents want authorities and aid organisations to come to their rescue after the heavy rains destroyed their property and crops. Dativa Musanabera, one of the residents told The …
The CERES (Crop Estimation through Resource and Environment Synthesis)-rice model incorporated in DSSAT version 4.5 was calibrated for genetic coefficients of rice cultivars by conducting field experiments during the kharif season at Jorhat, Kalyani, Ranchi and Bhagalpur, the results of which were used to estimate the gap in rice yield. …
We've all heard that the phases of the moon influence rainfall. A high moon in the sky creates bulges in the planet's atmosphere, which creates indistinguishable changes in the amounts of rainfall. However, researchers at the University of Washington found that lunar forces have a very small effect on the …
The question is how insurance will work for the poor, who have little collateral but face the highest risk In Jammu, litchi was flowering-much earlier and out of season. This is because winter had not come and it was warmer than usual. But now as the chill has set in, …
The El Niño weather phenomenon is causing millions of dollars in losses in Cuban agriculture, affecting the island’s crops of sugar cane, tobacco, rice, coffee and vegetables, local experts are reporting in state-run media. El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, which was categorized as “very strong” between November 2015 and January …
As climate change makes the desert nation hotter and drier, and a growing economy uses more water, the United Arab Emirates is giving $5m to researchers finding ways to wring more moisture out of clouds A pilot and a United Arab Emirates official check salt flares on a plane. They …
This document serves to outline El Niño’s major implications on food and nutrition security in the southern Africa region and highlights immediate and long-term preparedness requirements. Further, it provides country profiles to give contextual national information for Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia …
SHIMLA: There was no respite from biting cold wave conditions in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday as minimum temperatures hovered around freezing point in mid and lower hills while high altitude tribal areas reeled under minus 12 to minus 22 degrees Celsius. The local MeT office revised its earlier forecast and …
India's monsoon is in no danger of catastrophic collapse in response to global warming and air pollution, two atmospheric scientists said today, refuting earlier predictions that the monsoon could shut down within 100 years. The scientists at Yale University in the US who used computers to model the Earth's atmosphere, …
Aurangabad: Water expert Madhavrao Chitale on Sunday said that diverse conditions have created issues related to equal distribution of water and localised sources of water must be created. He was speaking at a two-day conference on climate change and rural development at the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. The conference …
The latest report compiled by the SADC Regional Early Warning System (REWS) indicates that in many parts of the SADC region - Namibia included - the October to December 2015 period has been the driest in at least the past 35 years. The net impact of the poor rainfall and …
Provincial authorities in Mozambique’s resource-rich Tete province say at least 450,000 peasant farmers have been affected by drought in the region where up to 64,000 hectares of crops have been lost, APA can report.Data released by the provincial permanent secretary, Lina Portugal at a meeting in Tete on Wednesday reveals …
Record dry weather in the usually wet farming regions of south-west Victoria forces farmers to queue for water and leads to push for future-proofing Record dry weather in the usually wet farming regions of south-west Victoria has forced farmers to queue for water from a community bore, and led to …
A strong El Nino weather pattern will likely end in the second quarter of 2016, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday. Climate indicators remain in the El Nino threshold but have cooled in recent months, with a likely return to neutral conditions within six months, it said.An El …
South Africa's rainbow nation faces a drought-induced corn conundrum about the color of its staple, a starchy cake-like mixture derived from maize: white, yellow or a mix of the two? In South Africa, white maize is made into what is known locally known as "pap", the main source of calories …
Ghana’s savannah ecosystem has been subjected to a number of climatic hazards of varying severity over the past three decades. This paper presents a spatial, time-series analysis of the impacts of multiple hazards on the ecosystem and human livelihoods, using the Upper East Region of Ghana as a case study.
