India Meteorological Department (IMD) is issuing the forecast for the southwest monsoon seasonal rainfall (June to September) for the country as a whole in two stages. The first stage forecast is issued in April and the second stage forecast is issued in June. IMD is using state-of-the-art Statistical Ensemble Forecasting system (SEFS) which is critically […]
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Monsoons are associated with mushy and wet days, loads of hot pakoras, jalebis, samosas, rainy day holidays and much more. But, apart from fun days, take advantage of-the season to do some serious research. Your results could perhaps rival that of the meteorological department! Want to take up the challenge? Read on to know what […]
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Mawsynram and Cherrapunji, which place is the wettest ? Records—sports, music, cooking or even rainfall always generates curiosity. But, there is this thing about records—it is almost always broken by a new one. Thus, Cherrapunji’s record as the wettest place in the world has been overturned with Mawsynram figuring as the ‘latest’ wettest place on […]
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New Delhi, August 1 (G’nY News Service): Cyclone Komen, that built a depression over Bangladesh, claimed more than 160 lives and affected an estimated 80 lakh people in India hitherto. The worst affected states are West Bengal, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Odisha and Manipur. Two days after the cyclone made a landfall in Bangladesh, the east and […]
Continue ReadingNew Delhi, July 11 (G’nY News Service): Rainfall will continue over North India as the weekend forecast (IMD) for the Delhi NCR region suggests that there would be an overcast sky with moderate rainfall. The depression now lies over Madhya Pradesh and southeast Uttar Pradesh, centered 55kms south southwest of Satna at 0530 hours early […]
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Spatial Variability The chief features of spatial variability of annual rainfall are deduced by analysing expansion and contraction of moisture regions. The mean annual isohyets of 560 mm, 1040 mm, 1420 mm, 1630 mm and 2450 mm can be used to demarcate six Thornthwaite type climatic moisture regions – arid with 15.32 per cent, semiarid […]
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