Amid gloomy forecast about rain in different parts of the country this year, the farmers of Bihar could derive solace from the good news that the overall rainfall in the state would be 99% of the n

Computer scientists are picking a new fight with old school meteorologists, claiming finally to have cracked the code on weather forecasting at a pivotal, profitable moment for the field, as climat

With El Nino looming large over monsoon this year, the state government has pulled up its socks to checkmate the phenomenon.

RAIPUR: As heat-wave continues to grip state capital, three persons died here of heat stroke in last three days with temperature soaring to highest on Sunday to 45.9 degree celsius.

This working paper by Ashok Gulati and Shweta Saini of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) approaches the question of disconnect between El Nino and Indian droughts by exploring the timing of El Nino developments in a year and its relation with monsoon rains. Read full text.

The monsoon rainfall in 2014 is likely to be less than the long term average, with a chance of almost one in four of it being a drought, according to the forecast of the India Meteorological Department. The expected occurrence of an undesirable phenomenon – the El Niño over the Pacific Ocean, is considered to be a major factor in determining the fate of the monsoon this year. (Editorial)

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The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology's (IITM) first experimental real-time monsoon forecast for this year predicts delayed monsoon advancement over the country .

The chances have increased over the past month that the much-feared El Nino weather phenomenon, which can wreak havoc on global crops, will strike this year, the federal U.S.

The Australian weather bureau on Tuesday declared an El Nino alert, saying there was at least a 70% chance of occurrence of the weather pattern that’s also linked to weak monsoons in India, with so

A spike in Pacific Ocean sea temperatures and the rapid movement of warm water eastwards have increased concerns that an El Nino pattern this year could be one of the strongest in several decades,

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