The Southwest Monsoon has withdrawn from the NE region. This was announced by the India Meteorology Department (IMD) yesterday.

New Delhi: After its predictions went wrong this year, the weather office is mulling doing away with issuing summer monsoon forecasts and replacing them with weather outlook for every month, a top official on Thursday said.

Sample this. For October 1, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) average rain forecast over Raichur district was 27 mm. However, the district was rainwashed with an unprecedented downpour of 198 mm on that day.

New Delhi: After much speculation and the government

CHENNAI: A normal or above normal north-east monsoon is expected this year, Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Ajit Tyagi, Director-General, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said here on Thursday.

Mumbai Mumbai's weather has been erratic since December, an indication of the worldwide phenomenon of climate change, says Dr R V Sharma, deputy director general, India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The maximum and minimum temperatures of the city remained above their normal quotients even today, though there was cloud cover for some hours over the city. Today, the city recorded a maximum temperature of 36.7 degree Celsius and a minimum temperature of 26.7 degree Celsius.

Sept. 23: The deficient rainfall has turned 50 lakh acres of fertile fields in the state into brownish barren
swathes of land.
With the southwest monsoon coming to a close by the month-end, there is no relief possible now and food grain production is likely to be just half of what it was in 2008, with a consequent surge in prices.

P. Sunderarajan

NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said the southwest monsoon is all set to withdraw, even as the deficiency in the cumulative rainfall for the season as a whole increased marginally from 20 to 21 per cent over the past week.