No insurance against fraud

Private weather forecasting agencies are prone to fudging data in the absence of a regulatory authority

Stars dont foretell any more

Sahyadris have been documenting the changing climate for 40 years

Another cold wave expected in North India

Some predictions suggest temperatures can dip as low as -4°C  

Monsoon modeling is not like the ‘blind men and elephant’ story

Disparate insights into model imperfections are all related to the intricacies of the monsoon dynamics itself and the models capture the most …

‘Predictions wrong, but give indications’

India Meteorological Department is often accused of making incorrect predictions. The Ministry of Earth Sciences regularly gets funds to …

Nature's forecasters

Trial and error

Potential help

Agromet advisory still in its infancy in India but set to be implemented on a larger scale

'Village level forecast will take time'

What prevents Indian scientists from making weather forecasts for farmers? Sailesh Naik, secretary to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, tells …

Seven disasters have cost the US $19 billion in 2023: NOAA

Each disaster caused damages of over a billion dollars; only 2017 and 2020 had more disasters in this timeframe

Forecasting failure

Met department has not learnt lessons from the Uttarakhand tragedy. It remains ill-equipped

Ahmedabad’s beat-the-heat plan

Civic body to send weather alerts, create public awareness and train medical officials

How humans invite storm

Tornado and storm frequencies linked to human activities

Rain Shocked

Rising trend of short but intense spells of rainfall is making usable water scarce in India

Experts give them a miss

Damp, snowy weekend ahead: Minimum temperatures to rise, dip again from January 14

Dense fog and cold wave over parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for the next 24 hours

Cost of inaccuracy

Climate change: Scientists look at 20th century data, heat extremes for early-warning signals

The study found that early-warning signals existed before global warming and were possibly due to the interplay of multiple environmental determinants

Bitter harvest: farmers kill selves

Freak weather destroys crops across India

Single drops of water make the mighty economy

Extreme weather: India’s death toll 1,357 from 19 events in 2019, flags DTE report

Over 300 died from floods, heavy rain in Bihar, 292 died from heat waves, shows report

India jumps to fourth place in computing capacity for weather forecasting

The super computer, Pratyush will help in major improvements in various services offered by institutions under the Ministry of Earth Sciences for …

Water pacifies heat

Soil moisture works as an indicator of weather extremes

Signal, interrupted

By allowing high-rises around an advanced weather radar in Mumbai, IMD sets a bad example for the rest of the country

How climate ready are we?