The state grapples with widespread losses in Kullu and other districts, prompting urgent calls for environmental accountability and disaster preparedness.
The IMD has also issued a warning of heavy rainfall in several parts of north India for the next 2-3 days, encouraging residents to remain vigilant and take necessary precautions.
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.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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