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 …
After a torrid and unusually hot summer, the monsoon rains could not have been more welcome when they set in over Kerala at the end of May. But the progress of the rain-bearing clouds northwards was sluggish and, by the end of June, the nationwide rainfall deficit stood at 16 …
Heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas of northern India over the weekend, killing at least 47 people, officials said Monday. Twenty-four people died Sunday as falling boulders crushed their homes in three villages in Almorah district in Uttrakhand state, said Prashant Kumar Tamta, a state government spokesman. …
Sept. 17: The Centre today announced a diesel subsidy of up to Rs 500 per hectare to farmers in drought-hit Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand to help them irrigate their fields.
New Delhi: If you thought that the relentless rains in north India will abate in the coming days, you may be wrong, because as per the India Meteorological Department (IMD) latest projections, withdrawal of southwest monsoon from the country will now start from September 30, a good one-month behind its …
AFTER a thorough assessment of rainfall during October in the last century, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday predicted that there was a 15 per cent chance of rain in the first fortnight of October when the Commonwealth Games will be held. IMD Director General Ajit Tyagi said,
Calcutta got its first real taste of monsoon 2010 with Monday emerging as the wettest day of the year under the influence of a cyclonic circulation. Three months after the monsoon had entered the state, on June 13, the city received 99.2mm of rainfall till 5.30pm on Monday, beating the …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi September 13, 2010, 1:13 IST The delay in the withdrawal of the monsoon is not an unmixed blessing though its overall impact on the output prospects for the current kharif and the subsequent rabi is deemed positive. Besides causing floods in the country
Ahmedabad: The rain gods have finally smiled on Gujarat with the state receiving 106 per cent of its annual rainfall by September 4. This has brought glee to farmers and relief to the government. Of the 26 districts in the state, at least 11 have received over 100 per cent …
New Delhi: The heavy rains lashing parts of central, southwest and northern India is likely to continue to for some days as the withdrawal of southwest monsoon from the country has been delayed by almost 15 days. The India meteorological department (IMD) in its latest weather forecast said, normally, the …
Almost five months after the state-of-the-art radar, S Band, arrived in the city for more accurate weather prediction, it seems that the technology will not be put to use this monsoon. The reason: India Meteorological Department is yet to finish the earthing and wiring which would make the radar operational. …
Amitabh Sinha Monsoon showers in the last few days have almost completely wiped out the overall rainfall deficit of this season, but entire eastern India continues to reel under an abnormally dry spell and now faces a second successive year of serious drought.As of Wednesday, there is almost 25 per …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 26, 2010, 0:55 IST Indifferent performance of the south-west monsoon continues to cause concern about re-stocking of water reservoirs, though it has allowed the kharif sowing to progress smoothly, except in a few pockets. Rain deficiency is noticeable in the entire central belt, from …
Agartala, July 25: The northeastern region, comprising eight states, has recorded deficit rainfall during the current monsoon season and this may affect agricultural production, an official said on Sunday.
IMD: Nothing Unusual About Dry Spell, Monsoon Will Pick Up Pune: For those in parts of India confused by predictions of a soggy season and consequently a bumper crop and the contrasting reality of a dry spell, there
BHUBANESWAR: More sun, less rain. The monsoon seems to have left Orissa high and dry. And with no sign of any weather system forming over the next week or so, worse might be in store. At present, farmers cannot go ahead with the weeding process as the farmlands have dried …
NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department on Thursday forecast that there could be some improvement in the monsoon situation over North India this coming week. According to the latest bulletin, fairly widespread rain or thundershowers could occur over Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh, scattered rainfall over Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya …
New Delhi: The India Meteorological department (IMD) is not ruling out possibility of rains during the Commonwealth Games. With monsoon in northwest India delayed and La Nina conditions developing fast over the central Pacific ocean
P. Sunderarajan NEW DELHI: The onset of the southwest monsoon over Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of north India is likely to be delayed by at least one more week. Speaking to The Hindu, Director-General of India Meteorological Department Ajit Tyagi said the monsoon flow had once again become …
Monsoon To Remain Elusive For A Week Ahmedabad: City mayor Kanaji Thakore is expected to perform the prajanya-yagna in Madhavpura on Sunday, during which he will sit in a vessel full of water, and pray for rain. Thakore will be joined by scores of citizens who are enduring fasts and …
