Ahmedabad First South Asian Climate Outlook Forum in city today

Last year, the monsoon forecast was 22 per cent off the mark. This year, however, even before the monsoon forecast for this month, the India
Meteorological Department (IMD) is set to do forecasting for the entire South Asia region, for the first time, by April end.

R. Ramachandran

New Delhi: The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has proposed a National Mission on monsoon towards developing reliable dynamic models for forecasting the monsoon over the next three to five-year period through a multi-institutional effort.

Shweta Kamat
PANJIM, APRIL 12
The extent of the much feared ozone depletion over Goa will now be known to researchers through a facility planned to come up at Vasco.
Goa is one amongst the 20 stations, where the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune will spearhead the country

New Delhi: During the course of last month, many Delhiites swore they had never experienced such high temperatures in the capital this time of the year. They were absolutely right. March this year was the second warmest in Delhi since systematic records began in 1901, the Met department said on Friday. The only time Delhi had a warmer month of March was way back in 1953.

Mumbai An Indian-made Doppler radar designed for real time weather prediction, a need felt during the 2005 deluge, is headed for the city, with weather officials optimistic it will be in place before this year

Eswar Singh K R Mysore, Mar 25, DHNS

As one more World Meteorological Day passes without fanfare early this week, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Bangalore is quietly on the path of updating and modernisation.

Noting that the decade 2000-2009 was warmest ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said that 2009 was the fifth-warmest year since climate records began in 1850.

In a report on its 60th anniversary, the UN weather agency said the nineties were warmer than the eighties.The report showed that the decade 2000-2009 was warmest ever recorded.