The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The monsoon revived significantly on Thursday, ending weeks of nervousness as rainbearing clouds rapidly advanced to Jammu and Kashmir and are likely to soak parched fields in the breadbasket states of Haryana and Punjab in the next two to three days. The monsoon, which arrived behind schedule last month and …
To counter the growing influence of China over the Indian Ocean region, the government has decided to perk its deep sea mining plans, with a fresh impetus on securing strategic ground. This would also help the country in exploration of rare earth materials from the deep sea and catapult it …
Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said Assam’s erosion problem will be included in the list of the country’s natural disasters, a move that will enable the state government to spend central relief funds (CRF) to tackle the issue. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said Tuesday that the move will …
If rains don’t hit the northwestern and central parts of India soon, the water table in these regions may fall below last year’s levels, a preliminary assessment has revealed. Last year, the ground water levels in northwestern states during the pre-monsoon period (April-June) was estimated at 10-20 metres below ground …
With the South-West monsoon weakening in the middle of its course, almost half the State is thirsting for rains. As many as 14 districts have received deficient rainfall in June leaving the farming community in the midst of an uncertain cropping season. If the rainfall scenario does not improve by …
With several states reeling under a drought-like situation as they await the monsoon, experts have pointed out that not enough is being done to deal with the situation arising out of scanty rainfall. Drought management, they say, assumes significance in view of changing weather patterns. “We are not prepared to …
It might still be too early to say so but indications of a good monsoon this season are fast receding. With the first month of the four-month season almost over, there is already a 23 per cent deficiency in rainfall, and the monsoon has entered another weak phase which is …
IMD says rains are not too late to raise an alarm, predicts heavy rainfall in the north-eastern and eastern parts in next two days Worried over the slow progress of the monsoon, food minister KV Thomas held a meeting on Thursday on the likelihood of less rains and subsequent droughtlike …
A surge in rainfall in the past two days has narrowed the season’s monsoon deficit to 29% from 41%, cheering farmers and easing concerns of food inflation, which has been in double digits in the recent months. Countrywide rainfall was 59% above normal on Monday, improving further after a 7% …
Passers-by push a vehicle through a water-logged road after heavy showers on Friday. DELUGE IN GUWAHATI: Passers-by push a vehicle through a water-logged road after heavy showers on Friday. — PTI The Met Office today issued the monsoon report card for the second week and the score is certainly not …
Use of dynamical models will replace statistical methods, providing greater precision HARI PULAKKAT BANGALORE Information about monsoon rainfall is a key input to many farmers, but all they can hope to get in advance is a forecast about the total rainfall for the country for the entire season. Armed with …
With official monsoon predictions going haywire year after year, the Union ministry of earth sciences has turned to the scientific community for help to design an effective monsoon prediction model with zero error. The design, an improved version of the UK and the US monsoon prediction models, will help meteorologists …
Monsoon is bearing down on the city, checking the forecast before stepping out is the logical thing to do. But the equipment that can issue a better forecast, and that too much in advance, stands useless in Colaba’s Navy Nagar this year too. The city will not benefit from the …
New Delhi: The odds of an El Nino phenomenon developing in July through September and potentially affecting the Indian monsoon are dead-even at 50-50, offering hope that India’s agriculture and economy may yet escape a crippling blow. A stuttering economy has seen heightened attention on the Pacific warming, known to …
New Delhi: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) announced the onset of monsoon on Tuesday following a four-day delay in clouds gathering strength over the southern shores. The delay, though vital, suggests that the chances of the country enjoying a normal monsoon remain even as the clouds progress northwards. The IMD …
Rains hit Kerala; Met to decide on official declaration in 24 hrs Evenas rains have started along the west coast of Kerala, India Meteorological Department (IMD) will still take at least 24 hours for the official declaration of monsoon. “Rains have started at the 14 designated stations in Kerala, which …
Delay Not Drastic, Assures IMD Kochi/Pune: After keeping the country and the powersthat-be on tenterhooks, the skies have thrown up a positive sign: the south-west monsoon which should have hit Kerala five days ago will arrive in the next 48 hours, with June 6 being the farther limit. On Sunday, …
A delay in the onset of monsoon by 3-4 days over the Kerala coast won’t jeopardise India’s farm prospects in the crop year starting June 1 as sowing usually picks up with the arrival of the seasonal showers, according to outgoing agriculture secretary P K Basu. In an interview, Basu …
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said the climate models it monitors indicate a possible return of the El Nino weather pattern, often linked to heavy rainfall and droughts, in the second half of 2012. The last severe El Nino in 1998 killed more than 2,000 people and caused billions of dollars …
Met chief says El Nino may affect showers The monsoon is likely to hit the southern tip of the country on time in the first week of June, said India’s top weather department official on Thursday, a week before the official forecast, lifting hopes of better farm output for the …
