'Can say for sure conditions were favourable for extremely heavy rainfall,' says IMD director. At least 4 people have died & more than 50 are feared missing.
The state grapples with widespread losses in Kullu and other districts, prompting urgent calls for environmental accountability and disaster preparedness.
Bharat Forecast System promises to improve forecast capabilities, accuracy to 6-km range, compared with current 12 km. It also offers 30% better prediction of extreme rainfall events.
Temperatures are soaring not only during the day but refusing to fall at night. Humidity, shrinking green spaces and urbanisation worsen the heat trap in Indian cities.
Delhi recorded second highest single-day rainfall for May since 1901, on Friday. The record for the highest single-day rainfall was on 20 May 2021, when it was 119.3 mm.
PM Narendra Modi was at IMD's 150th anniversary celebration. There has been a 50% rise in the accuracy of weather forecasts by IMD in the past decade, said minister Jitendra Singh.
Also known as the retreating monsoon, Northeast Monsoon typically begins in October. It brings cold and dry winds from Himalayas towards warmer Indian Ocean & Deccan Peninsula.
An IMD forecast for October shows above-normal temperatures over most parts of the country. Despite being a transitionary month, it is warming at a worrying rate, scientists say.
With forecast of 106% LPA rainfall, IMD announces favourable conditions for monsoon's advance. Climate models indicate warmer El Niño conditions likely to end by August-September.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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