Monsoon To Remain Elusive For A Week

Ahmedabad: City mayor Kanaji Thakore is expected to perform the prajanya-yagna in Madhavpura on Sunday, during which he will sit in a vessel full of water, and pray for rain.

Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 28, 2010, 1:33 IST

Notwithstanding the unabated optimism of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) about normal monsoon this year, the progress of the south-west monsoon has been sluggish and patchy.

P. Sunderarajan

NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department on Thursday forecast that the monsoon, which has remained stationary for the past one week, is expected to advance northwards again.

Pune: The southwest monsoon isn

Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 21, 2010, 0:37 IST

Paucity of monsoon rainfall alone is not a sufficient determinant of drought, maintains the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Several other factors need to be taken into account to declare an agricultural drought.

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Pune Director of weather forecasting, India Meteorology Department, Medha Khole on Tuesday said owing to India

NEW DELHI: There could be some good development on the monsoon front soon. According to the India Meteorological Department, monsoon activity in the peninsular region, which had remained subdued for the past several days, could revive in the next two days.

Nano on road, Phet at sea
Phet Threat Could Get Real By Friday

Ahmedabad: Alarm bells rang through Gujarat as Cyclone Phet intensified to very severe cyclonic storm kicking up strong winds, thunderstorm and rainfall across the state, in a dramatic switch from the sweltering heat. Phet could possibly hit the Gujarat coast on Friday, the weatherman warned.

P. Sunderarajan

With the cyclonic storm over the Arabian Sea becoming increasingly strong, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday issued a fresh alert for the coastal areas of Gujarat.