G. Prabhakaran

PALAKKAD: The Silent Valley National Park, one of the few remaining rainforests in the country, gets one of the highest

Flooded roads, overflowing drains and inundated villages the monsoon is spreading havoc across the coastal districts in the State. The govt is struggling to limit the damage

HEAVY rains battered Chennai on Friday, bringing normal life to a standstill and causing widespread damage to roads, and probems for vehicles, even as the weatherman predicted that the downpour would last till Sunday morning in coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Call to deploy high resolution global, regional climate models.

Focus areas

The session also felt the need for improving the accuracy of weather forecasting and short-term climate prediction for high impact weather events.

Another area that needed focus was the development and implementation of early warning systems for all hydro-meteorological disasters.

Vinson Kurian

Beijing: Beijing residents woke up on Sunday morning to a city turned white with snow that came far ahead of the winter. It was only in the later part of the day that people learnt that 186 doses of silver iodide went into persuading the clouds to release the snow flakes.

Greeshma Gopal Giri | ENS

MERE spattering, brief spells will not suffice for certain parts of Ambattur Municipality this year; the prayers are for heavy rain.

Delayed monsoon has led to wells drying up and groundwater level getting depleted. Water scarcity is particularly acute in the localities in and around Mogappair East and West.