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 …
PANJIM: Monsoons in the country may be in for bad news as scientists predict a significant decreasing trend in the monsoon rainfall over central India. Dr Roxy Mathew Koll, scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in a recent paper published in the Nature Communications journal said that rapid …
The state government has taken the decision to promote cultivation of eight-month crops in drought-hit districts of Marathwada and parts of west Maharashtra, instead of the 12 to 14-month sugarcane cultivation which is highly water intensive. The reforms in the agriculture policy will be enforced from next season. In some …
The relation between rainfall and water accumulated in reservoirs comprises nonlinear feedbacks. Here we show that they may generate alternative equilibrium regimes, one of high water-volume, the other of low water-volume. Reservoirs can be seen as socio-environmental systems at risk of regime shifts, characteristic of tipping point transitions. We analyze …
Farmers across India who are already hit by unseasonal rains this year have to brace up as a report on Monday said that the country is headed towards the driest monsoon season for the third time in three decades. Renewing concerns over poor harvest and spike in food inflation, the …
The heat wave conditions made a comeback in most parts of western Rajasthan on Sunday as no rainfall occurred in over a month in the state while Churu became the hottest place at 42.8 degrees Celsius, a MeT report said. Winds carrying dust blew in the hot and dry weather …
This year's monsoon could end up as among the worst three in nearly three decades. With an extended dry patch in most of the country, which has revived fears of a weak harvest and food inflation, the season's rainfall deficit has widened to 16 per cent, according to the weather …
This is our season of despair. This year, it would seem, the gods have been most unkind to Indian farmers. Early in the year came the weird weather events, like hailstorms and freak and untimely rains that destroyed standing crops. Nobody knew what was happening. After all, each year we …
Nairobi County Government will map out areas prone to flooding before the onset of the El-Nino rains, which are expected from next month. The county's Planning, Environment and Roads and Infrastructure departments are set to release a joint report after mapping out the hotspot area in the coming days. Roads …
At least 146 families rendered homeless in the recent wave of flood at Lower Dibang Valley district with report of 103 dwellings being washed out by flood water. Under the direction of DC Ravi Dhawan, a team from District Disaster Management Agency headed by DDMO Alokong Perme and accompanied by …
Wading to school: Schoolchildren navigate through floodwater on a bridge over Valakaladinni stream near Kudalasangama in Bagalkot district on Thursday. Moderate to heavy rains lashed North Karnataka districts and Shivamogga since Wednesday evening. The incessant rains brought with them a flood of woes for people in Vijayapura, Raichur, Bagalkot and …
The Meteorological Agency issued a severe-weather warning for Miyagi Prefecture early Friday morning and warned of further mudslides and flooding across eastern Japan as rain clouds shifted north. The banks of the Shibui River in the city of Osaki collapsed and flooded houses nearby, and the city of Sendai issued …
Typhoon Etau made landfall Wednesday morning on the Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture. The weather agency warned of mudslides, flooding and high winds and waves. Some trains and flights were canceled. There were partial closures on some highways and thousands of evacuations were in force. Local authorities in the city …
Monsoon rains have revived in the worst-hit central India and southern peninsula regions that would help boost kharif crops and water level in reservoirs, a top official of the Met department said on Wednesday. Monsoon deficit has been at 12 per cent so far this season (June 1 to September …
The government has set aside Sh5 billion and put on standby 70,000 National Youth Service members in readiness for the destructive El Nino rains expected from October. This is part of an emergency plan revealed by Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday. The plan brings together all ministries and will …
PANJIM: Despite receiving some respite from the dry spell the State has witnessed since Friday, Goa’s rainfall deficit is still 25 percent. While the normal rainfall is 2788.33 mm, the State has so far registered 2104.5 mm of rainfall accounting for a rainfall departure of 25 percent from normal. Speaking …
It increasingly appears that weather systems over Asia are interlinked and feeling the effects of El Nino, global warming and local air pollution G B S N P Varma Despite intense floods in some parts of India, the monsoon rainfall across India through August 10 is only 91% of average …
Officials from the GSDA further said they had been intimated that nearly 12 districts in the state would continue with all the schemes for scarcity till September 30. With depleting groundwater levels and deficient rainfall in the state, the Groundwater Survey and Development Agency (GSDA) has pressed the panic button, …
With several regions facing severe deficit in the monsoon, an agriculture ministry advisory has asked farmers to grow contingency crops such as short-duration pulses and millets and prepare the soil for the coming rabi, or winter, crops. A region-specific advisory by the ministry and India Meteorological Department (IMD) has urged …
This year's early withdrawal of the southwest monsoon from western India could lead to an early onset of the northeast monsoon over southern states. Spread over October till December, this retreating monsoon brings rainfall over Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. This could help planting of winter crops and …
Floods have destroyed crops on nearly 2.75 lakh hectares of land in 29 districts, causing losses to thousands of farmers, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension. About 95 percent of the affected crops are aman, with some farmers saying that losses from the floods would be huge. Bangladesh experienced …
