The city recorded an all-time high of 40.6 degrees Celsius on March 31, 1945
The city on Sunday recorded the hottest day of March in the past six years with the temperature shooting up to 39.2 degrees Celsius, as per the meteorological department.

Vinson Kurian

India would have good summer monsoon this year is the unambiguous forecast statement coming in latest from the Tokyo-based Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC). This is based on the premise that the current El Nino with major warming in the central Pacific would end soon in the following months, says Dr Jing-Jia Luo, Senior Scientist at the RIGC.

LA NINA UPGRADE

Sudha Nambudiri

KOCHI: As yet another World Water Day passes by, the drying wells, vanishing waterbodies and the decrease in rainfall catches the attention of environmentalists and scientists alike. While the former is exhorting the public and the powers that be of the dangers of a water crisis, the latter is looking into the reasons behind it.

India

THE country will likely experience a normal monsoon this crop year, agriculture secretary PK Basu said here on Friday, raising hopes of a recovery in farm output which was hit by the worst drought in 37 years last season.

EL NINO UNLIKELY TO RECUR; DELAY IN THE ONSET OF SOUTHWEST MONSOON LIKLEY The El Nino condition had started to weaken by November and December, and we expect it to neutral in the next few months.

As the country saw drought-like situation in most regions and recorded 22 per cent less than normal rainfall last year, city-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) under the India Meteorological Department has charted out its cloud seeding programme for the rain shadow regions in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka for this year.

Strong dust-raising wind harassed the Guwahatians today signaling the advent of the westerly wind, known in this part of the globe as pachowa botah.

Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) sources here said that during the day time today, the strong dust-raising westerly wind prevailed over the NE region, blowing at a speed of 10 km to 15 km per hour.