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 …
Incessant rain claimed five lives and caused an extensive damage to standing crops, mostly paddy, over thousands of hectares in the southern districts on Sunday. People residing along river banks and in low-lying areas were instructed to move to safety as water level in major reservoirs was reaching full capacity. …
The heavy rain over the past one week and more has claimed more lives and caused further crop loss across the State. Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan visited the rain-hit kole paddy lands in Thrissur district on Sunday and assured the farmers of all possible assistance. Three persons were killed in …
Several parts of Karnataka have been receiving unseasonable rain damaging a variety of summer crops and forcing people to remain indoors in urban areas. Though the rain that has been occurring in the southern and coastal parts of the State intermittently for the past week has brought down the rising …
Widespread heavy rain, caused by an upper air cyclonic trough, lashed the State for the second day on Sunday, claiming six lives and extensively damaging standing crops in several districts. Five of the casualties were from Kurnool district, while one death occurred in Hyderabad. Three persons were killed at Pesaravai …
Heavy rains are wreaking havoc in north Telangana districts with standing crops getting damaged resulting in huge losses to the farmers. The initial crop losses were estimated at around Rs 50 crore in Warangal and the crops in an estimated area of 40,000 acre have got damaged. In almost all …
At least eight people were killed and nearly 200,000 people have been affected due to torrential rain resulting from the north-east monsoon in the country. The deaths have been reported from Badulla, Moneragala and Gampha districts during the last few days,. Around 44,600 families consisting of 173,909 have been affected, …
In parts of the world already facing unreliable food supplies, an uncertain climate adds to the future stress for soils, plants and people. March 20, 2008
Water (either from the sky or the irrigation canal) is often a key factor in determining crop yields, squeezing more crop out of the same drop will be central to one of the biggest challenges of this century: sustainably feeding a population of perhaps 9 billion people in a climate-changed …
Several dams in the State are receiving higher inflows in the wake of an un-seasonal rain spell in the southern parts of the State and Karnataka. Regarded as the lifeline of the Cauvery delta, the Mettur dam recorded at 4 p.m. on Tuesday an inflow of 9,200 cubic feet per …
Melburnians tossed and turned through the warmest March night on record with the mercury dipping to a balmy minimum of 26.9 degrees just before 7.30am today. Weather bureau senior forecaster Peter Blake said it was the city's warmest March night, beating the previous record on March 3 1988, when Melbourne …
Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka said that over 7,000 families have been displaced due to floods. Also, several areas are in danger with landslides, the Centre added. According to the sources 6,300 families have been displaced in the Mannar district alone. Also, dams of two reservoirs in Mannar have …
Two projects for sustainable sanitation and safe water supply systems in Dakop upazila of Khulna district have flopped due to use of low quality equipment, installation of improper equipment, water crisis and lack of training for using the new sanitation system. Modus operandi to implement the two projects is not …
With the torrential rain taking its toll affecting several districts including Mannar, Anuradhapura, Badulla and Ratnapura causing heavy floods, the Disaster Management Centre issued landslide warnings in several other areas including the central hills. The Disaster Management Centre quoting the National Building Research Bureau (NBRO) said landslide threat looms in …
Shivalik hills of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh are among the 107 million hectares in the country worst affected by soil erosion, resulting in continuous and gradual depletion of fertility and productivity in these regions. Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar told the Lok Sabha today that other areas affected by soil …
IRRI-boro paddy cultivation in Pabna is facing a setback because of a drought-like situation for lack of rain. The farmers are now crying for rain. In many areas, cracks have developed on fields due to lack of water. Farmers said they were facing an unusual situation like the one in …
Landslides in Nilgiris are mainly due to rainfall, but human intervention in the form of deforestation and plantation has turned this into a calamity. This study in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu with the help of Global Land Cover Facility data reveals that there is a drastic reduction in …
Thirty-two sewerage schemes to be completed at a cost of Rs623.706 million in Latifabad, city and Qasimabad Talukas have been approved by the District Nazim of Hyderabad, Kanwar Naveed Jamil. The decision was taken in a meeting held on Thursday at the District Nazim's Secretariat and attended by Chairman District …
Deposits in a Chinese cave tell the story of the region 's climate stretching back more than 200,000 years, well past the last interglacial warm period
Adverse weather conditions, including heavy rains, have affected mango crop in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, while the prospects in Maharashtra, the largest producer of the
