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 …
The state this year witnessed a deficit monsoon to the tune of 50 per cent. Since most of the irrigation in the state is dependent on rains, farmers have come under enormous fiscal stress owing to poor rainfall. The farmers had to spend an additional amount of Rs 5,000 to …
Near-drought conditions are spreading further across eastern Australia as summer approaches. The Bureau of Meteorology’s latest drought statement says the big dry gripping northern NSW and Queensland is extending south, with parts of Victoria recording their driest ever September and widening long-term rainfall deficiencies in NSW, Victoria and South Australia. …
Air pollution caused by humans and resulting in high concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere affected annual monsoon rainfall in the northern hemisphere. A new study by the University of Edinburgh attributes a fall by 10% in rainfall over the last 50 years to these anthropogenic emissions and not due …
The southwest monsoon on Sunday withdrew from Himachal Pradesh, but remained 38 percent deficit, the weather bureau said. This was the driest monsoon in the decade, it added. “The monsoon remained deficit in most parts of the State that witnessed 38 percent deficit rain,” meteorological office director Manmohan Singh told …
Shortfall unlikely to stoke inflation in foodgrains; rice acreage made up Bangalore September 30: The South-West Monsoon, lifeline of country’s agriculture, has ended with a shortfall of around 12 per cent for the year. The four-month monsoon season ended officially on Tuesday with the country receiving a total rainfall of …
Rainfall prediction is very crucial for India as its economy is based on mainly agriculture. The parameters that are required to predict the rainfall are very complex in nature and also contain lots of uncertainties. Although various approaches have been earlier suggested for prediction, the soft computing is found to …
The UK is on course to have its driest September since records began, according to provisional figures released on Tuesday by the Met Office. The country received just 19.4mm of rain up to 28 September, about a fifth of the normal level. It has also been one of the warmest …
CWC chief says 10 stations are being planned in the State The Central Water Commission (CWC), at present, can generate only a quick and ready assessment of an impending flood in Srinagar based on rainfall data. CWC Chairperson Ashwin Pandya says it will take two years to establish a proper …
Guwahati: Jamini Baishya is yet to come to terms with the harrowing time she and her family faced when all of a sudden water rushed down the Garo Hills into her village at Dilinga in Boko, Kamrup district, on Monday. She, along with her two children, other family members and …
With the recovery of four more bodies today, the death toll mounted to 36 in Assam floods that affected about 10 lakh people in 13 districts and rendered majority of them homeless, reports PTI. Two more deaths were reported from Krishnai and Kukurkata areas of the worst-hit Goalpara district, while …
Due to incessant rains since Saturday night, the surging waters of the Jiadhal re-entered through the breached portion of Tekjuri embankment and submerged more than 30 villages in the area under Dhemaji revinue circle, causing untold miseries to the flood people. The flood-affected people of west Dhemaji are passing sleepless …
Emergency food aid, normal rainfall and the start of the harvest have helped to stave off famine in South Sudan, the latest analysis shows, but there is a risk of mass starvation in early 2015. Aid agencies scrambled to avert famine in South Sudan by launching the world’s largest humanitarian …
The flood situation in Meghalaya remained grim on Tuesday though water level in some parts of Garo Hills receded even as death toll due to the devastation caused by flash flood and landslides rose to 25. As many as 24 people are still reported missing. According to official sources, seven …
SHILLONG: Eight persons including a pregnant woman and her mother-in law were killed and many others injured when a massive landslide buried them alive at Barapathar, in city in the early hours of Tuesday. With this death toll in the flood-related incidents has gone up to 25. The mud slipped …
Guwahati: Seven people were killed in Meghalaya's South West Garo Hills district on Monday after eight hours of rain led to flash floods. More than a lakh have been affected. Deputy commissioner of South West Garo Hills district Ram Singh said six people were killed by a landslide and one …
As reported from time to time about the threats posed by erosion caused by Barak river across the valley to human habitations, road communication and agriculture, no action or plan for protection is taken up by the Water Resource Department concerned. Rather, the magnitude and dimension of erosions continue to …
In Northeastern Nigeria seasonal rainfall is critical for the availability of water for domestic use through surface and sub-surface recharge and agricultural production, which is mostly rain fed. Variability in rainfall over the last 60 years is the main cause for crop failure and water scarcity in the region, particularly, …
Climate change is set to un leash a series of decades-long "megadroughts" this century , according to research to be published this week. Megadroughts - which are generally defined as lasting 35 years or more - will become considerably more frequent as global warming increases temperatures and reduces rainfall in …
Germany, which faced heavy rains and intermittent periods of hot and cold this summer, should brace for extreme weather in future probably because of climate change. Low-pressure areas over central Europe brought monsoon-like rainfall and storms to parts of Germany, Paul Becker, vice president of state-run Deutscher Wetterdienst said today. …
