Even as global forecasters have upped the chances of 2015 to be an El Nino year to 70 per cent, private weather forecaster Skymet says that the country will receive normal rains during the June-Sep

Of the un-insured, 46% were found to be aware but not interested while 24% said that the facility was not available to them

A US government weather forecaster on Thursday raised its forecast for the chance of El Nino conditions during the Northern Hemisphere summer to 70 per cent, up from a 60 per cent chance last month

The Central Water Commission (CWC) India’s leading water resources body which provides flood forecasts and predictions, surprisingly lacks flood monitoring system for Jammu and Kashmir.

There may be a new and better method for predicting the number of hurricanes in an upcoming season.

Kenya should invest in smart agricultural practices to mitigate its exposure to climate change which has affected production, hampered food security and fight against poverty, a new World Bank repo

Weather scientists from the US, Japan and Europe expect India's monsoon rainfall to be normal this year, a welcome news for a country that lacks adequate irrigation facilities in its farms and is l

A low cost mobile weather station made in Sri Lanka can capture and transmit near real-time data on rainfall. It raises alarm in the event of extreme rainfall and other natural disasters, which can help farmers, disaster management officials and the scientists plan ahead. The device, costing US $250, is made primarily from locally sourced materials.

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The World Bank is working with other development finance institutions to raise some $500 million (320 million pounds) to modernise weather and flood forecasti

The properties of European wind storms under present climate conditions are estimated on the basis of surface wind forecasts from the European Center of Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) Ensemble Prediction System (EPS). While the EPS is designed to provide forecast information of the range of possible weather developments starting from the observed state of weather, we use its archive in a climatological context. It provides a large number of modifications of observed storm events, and includes storms that did not occur in reality.

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