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Met advises farmers to monitor crops regularly, resort to light irrigation

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said that under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, the number of radars has increased from 15 to 37 in the last eight years

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said the Met department's severe weather prediction accuracy improved by around 40 per cent in the last eight to nine years. Addressing the 148th foundation day of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the minister said disaster-related mortality has dropped to single digit with improvement in forecast. He said the number of doppler radars in the county has increased from 15 in 2013 to 37 in 2023. India will add 25 more radars in the next two to three years, taking the number to 62, he added. "The entire country will be covered by doppler radars by 2025," he said. The IMD on Sunday commissioned four doppler weather radars (DWRs) in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jammu and Kashmir which will bolster its weather monitoring capabilities in the western Himalayan region. The four DWRs have been installed at Banihal Top in Jammu and Kashmir, Jot and Murari Devi in Himachal Pradesh and Surkanada Devi in Uttarakhand.

Six flights, scheduled to depart from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), were delayed due to fog, informed airport authority on Sunday

The costliest natural disaster in 2022 was Hurricane Ian in the US, which caused losses of around $100 billion, Xinhua news agency cited the report as saying

This was a research project of an IIT Madras scholar, Krithiga, to provide weather forecasts for irrigation management and is now being used in Chennai corporation for flood mitigation

Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted rainfall across Karnataka from Sunday till October 11

Cloudy weather is predicted in Delhi on Wednesday and a good spell of rain is unlikely till August-end, weather forecasters have said. The city recorded a minimum temperature of 25.7 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 34 degrees Celsius. The Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi's primary weather station, has recorded just 33.7 mm of rainfall so far in August against a normal of 191.1 mm -- a deficit of 82 per cent. Normally, the observatory gauges 247 mm of rainfall in August, the wettest month of the year. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast a generally cloudy sky and very light rain in Delhi over the next five to six days. Weather experts have attributed the rain deficit to the lack of any major weather system, such as a low-pressure area, near the capital. Mahesh Palawat, vice-president (climate change and meteorology), Skymet Weather, said not much rain is expected in Delhi until August-end. A low-pressure area is developing in th

The IMD is bolstering its observational network with the augmentation of radars, automatic weather stations and rain gauges and satellites to improve predictability, says the official

The maximum temperature on Thursday will hover around 37 degrees Celsius, an official of the IMD said

Isolated to scattered rainfall is likely over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal during next 5 days

Scattered to widespread rainfall is very likely over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan in the next 24 hours

The maximum temperature in Delhi-NCR and other parts of northwest India will come down by a few notches over the weekend but no major relief is likely till June 15, the IMD said

Over the longer term, India's highly negative credit exposure to physical climate risks means its economic growth will become more volatile

Monsoon in second half of the season not expected to be as good as first

After a wet winter, minimum temperatures are set to rise across the country from next fortnight, the weather office said

The BCCI along with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had earlier jointly decided to call off the fifth Test scheduled at Old Trafford in Manchester.

Amount will help in setting up more ground observation units in calamity-prone eastern India. Skymet aims to help mitigate risks and provide accurate data to farmers in the region

Amount will help in setting up more ground observation units in calamity-prone eastern India. Skymet aims to help mitigate risks and provide accurate data to farmers in the region

India Meteorological Department on Tuesday predicted thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity rain over parts of Delhi and its adjoining areas