‘There will be a day when we will be able to predict quakes’

Enough strain has accumulated in the Nepal region to cause a great earthquake. But how big it is going to be and when it is going to occur is a …

Unseasonal rainfall damages Rabi crops for seventh consecutive season

Primary estimate puts crop loss at around 10-15 per cent till now

Fiji feels devastating effects of Winston

Experts linked the cyclone to global warming, saying that the extreme-weather event pointed to climate change

Insure farmers to ensure future

Let’s leave for the moment the questions why these extreme weather events are happening in our world with greater frequency and intensity. …

Rainfall, snow expected in northern India over weekend

A variety of weather events will be witnessed in India in the coming week 

Moody monsoon floods Bihar, Northeast, keeps rest of India dry

The erratic nature of the monsoon coupled with the faulty methodology of presenting rainfall statistics are misleading people

Promise me the monsoon

Has weird weather become the new definition of normal?

The model man

Whether it is his well-known monsoon model or his new population model, Vasant Gowarikar enjoys defying the classical definitions of a specialist.…

Cyclone-warning system

Warm situation

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Changing weather

Changes in climatic trends may be part of a decade-long pattern known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Parched and pouring

Snooping on the rain

Indian scientists have embarked on the final leg of an ambitious voyage to unravel the mysteries of the monsoon

Is snow a rainkiller?

Snowfall in the Himalaya and Tibetan plateau affects monsoon  

The day the sea raged in

Bangladesh's early warning system had already warned those vulnerable on the coastline and helped limit the usually terrible human toll to a minimum

Chaos theory?

Science takes on nature as climatologists try to predict El Nio patterns in an attempt to warn governments of climatic anomalies

Silver iodide lining

Cloud seeding is a safe but improbable method to enhance rains

The shadow of a calamity

Among disasters, drought is the easiest to predict and manage. The Indian Meteorological Department's forecast of a "below normal" monsoon in …

Spike in sea temperatures, cyclones increase in Indian Ocean region: Report

Temperature rise 0.3°C higher than the global average of 0.7°C; last two years see significant rise in number, intensity and …

Bitter harvest: farmers kill selves

Freak weather destroys crops across India

Get future shocks now: watch weather reports of 2050

WMO ropes in well-known television weather presenters to present imagined but realistic weather reports of future ahead of New York climate meet

Met department moves from weather forecasting to nowcasting

Information on severe weather conditions will be made available three to six hours beforehand

Monsoon-friendly Assam reeling under drought