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 …
Weather experts say multiple factors have led to the State receiving such heavy rainfall this year El Niño has become the buzzword this northeast monsoon and is said to be the cause ofthe torrential downpour across the State. While admitting that this is a strong El Niño year, weather experts …
CHENNAI: Within a couple of hours of receipt of memorandum on the losses caused by heavy rains in Tamil Nadu from Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi allocated Rs 939.63 crore for dealing with the situation arising from the floods. The PM’s office said that a …
Nellore: Though it has been a week since heavy rain lashed Nellore district, many areas are under a sheet of water in Gudur, the second biggest town in the district. Encroachments as well as breaches to the tanks in the villages located on the western side of the town are …
HYDERABAD: More than 50 per cent additional rainfall than forecasted across Rayalaseema and rest of South India over the past two weeks, have got the scientific community worried about major climate changes occurring in the region. While the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted 12 percent above normal rainfall in …
BENGALURU: Following steady rains from the beginning of November, the cases of vector-borne diseases have shot up. Dengue cases is state have increased by 408 and chiungunya positive cases by 150 in last 30 days according to latest report by National Disease for Vector Borne Control Programme. On October 16, …
Farmers Have Lost Kharif Crop, May Also Lose Rabi Crop For Lack Of Aid Nearly half of the country's 676 districts are in the grip of drought due to deficit monsoon rainfall, but most of the affected states have so far not even approached the Centre for assistance after doing …
The glaciers in the Himalayas are melting fast, agricultural heartland is drying up and the national capital New Delhi is choking on the world's filthiest air. Global warming is already changing the face of rapidly developing India, predicted to become the world's most populous, overtaking China, in less than a …
Overall, the state received only 59.4 per cent of the total anticipated rainfall between June 1 and October 31 with long dry spells. WITH parts of the state having suffered a severe drought and crop damage, the Maharashtra government has sought Rs 4,002.82 crore from the Union government as relief …
CHENNAI: A day after allocating exclusive phone numbers at party headquarters for people affected by floods to seek relief and rehabilitation, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday announced Rs 1 crore aid towards flood relief in the state. "In the last 10 days, unprecedented rain has been lashing Tamil Nadu …
The North-East monsoon continued to wreak havoc in Tamil Nadu with rains pounding the northern coastal districts and more being forecast for the coming days in the state, where the death toll as climbed to 71. Twelve more persons have been killed in incidents of drowning and wall-collapse between November …
The present report is a collection of research results presented, by IITM scientists and other experts at the IITM Monsoon Discussion Forums (IMDF) during conspicuous boreal summer of 2015. The evolution of the consecutive deficit Indian summer monsoon, with developing El Niño phenomenon over the Pacific, turned out to be …
Tamil Nadu continued to experience monsoon fury, with heavy rain pounding various parts of the state under the influence of a well marked low pressure area over Bay of Bengal, as the death toll from rain-related incidents climbed to 59. There seemed to be no respite from the downpour with …
Cuddalore receives 266mm rainfall in two days Even as the death toll in rain-related incidents in the district, which bore the brunt of nature’s fury following a depression over the Bay of Bengal on Monday, rose to 27, receding floodwater offers survivors the hope of speedy rehabilitation. With the floodwaters …
The main aim of this paper is to test economic benefits of landslide prevention measures vs. post-event emergency actions. To this end, detailed- and large-scale analyses were performed in a training area located in the northeastern Italian pre-Alps that was hit by an exceptional rainfall event occurred in November 2010. …
Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe, drought in East Africa, and stifling heat waves in Australia, Asia, and South America, according to a new report released. …
Forecasters say this year’s El Niño promises to be one of the strongest ever, with the potential to unleash a devastating wave of flash floods and mudslides upon drought-stricken California in coming months. If there’s one person who should be concerned, it’s Bill “Tattoo” LeBlanc, a homeless man living alongside …
Poor harvest of summer crops triggered by scanty rainfall has worsened food security situation in Mugu district. Around 90 percent people in the district are involved in agriculture, and they are worried about possible food shortage this year. Some impoverished settlements are already facing food shortage. Photu, Jima, Kalai, Natharpu, …
On a dry and dusty sports field in central Java, Indonesian men dressed as traditional warriors take turns to battle with wooden staves, while village women crowd around, chanting: "All farmers let us pray that rain comes and washes our sorrow away." As in many parts of Java, Indonesia's main …
On a dry and dusty sports field in central Java, Indonesian men dressed as traditional warriors take turns to battle with wooden staves, while village women crowd around, chanting: "All farmers let us pray that rain comes and washes our sorrow away." As in many parts of Java, Indonesia's main …
As California braces for torrential downpours this winter from El Nino, authorities have stockpiled extra sandbags across the state while putting hundreds of personnel through flood-control training, officials told state lawmakers on Wednesday. Water engineers and emergency managers addressed a state Senate hearing in Los Angeles on preparations for the …
