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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicWeather forecasting

Topic: Weather forecasting

IMD predicts heatwave to persist for next 6 days in Delhi, temperature to soar 42 degrees

India recorded its warmest March in 122 years with a severe heatwave scorching large swathes of the country in the month.

Southwest monsoon revives, rainfall to increase in south, central India, IMD says

IMD director said a low pressure is likely to form over west-central Bay of Bengal in the next 24 hours, however, subdued activity is likely to continue over north India.

Southwest monsoon arrives over Kerala, IMD says

After a delay of two days, Kerala receives its first shower of the southwest monsoon. This marks the commencement of the four-month rainfall season in the country.

Why Kerala is spending Rs 1 crore on private weather agencies despite IMD providing data

Kerala officials say IMD data is not refined or specific enough to provide alerts at the block level, impeding disaster management. 

Himachal’s Manali, Kufri at sub-zero temperature as cold wave intensifies

Minimum temperature dropped 1-2 degrees below normal limits at many places. The Met department forecast rain and snowfall in the high and mid hills on 4 and 7 February.

Severe cold in warm winter, floods in normal monsoon — why IMD gets its forecasts so wrong

Lack of infrastructure, complex nature of weather, and poor coordination make forecasting weather a tough proposition, not only in India but across the world.  

The secret culprit in why Indian forecasters got rain numbers wrong: Clouds

India received 10% more rainfall this monsoon although the country was originally predicted to receive only 94%.

We need to get weather forecasts right, global cooperation & data sharing is how

Maintaining international cooperation on weather forecasting can become harder as nationalist pressures build up in other arenas and people worry about cyber espionage.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.