Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
Rainfall
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Punjab releases Rs 4.77 cr for rain-hit farmers
Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has directed officials to ensure immediate disbursal of relief to farmers whose crop have been damaged due to inclement weather in the state. Badal also asked deputy commissioners to prepare and submit a detailed report on the extent of damage caused during the recent adverse weather conditions.
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Rain, snow bring cheer to Himachal
Solan: The current spell of rainfall and snow in the upper and middle hills of Himachal Pradesh may translate into some respite for farmers and orchardists who are grappling with the impact of five long months of dry winter. The last rain in the region was recorded at 10.4 mm in January while a total of only 57.2 mm rain was recorded between September last year and January this year.
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Weather forecast with greater precision
Shimla: The meteorological department will be able to make medium and long-term weather forecast with greater precision with the establishment of an automatic radiation station at its observatory here today.
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Rain plays havoc with ripe wheat crop
Govt agencies assessing loss Fatehgarh Sahib/Rajpura/ Khanna/Patiala: Widespread rains and squall damaged ready-to-harvest and harvested wheat crop in various villages of Fatehgarh Sahib, Rajpura, Khanna and Patiala. Agriculture department officials say the damage to this extent was reported around 10 years ago.
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Enhanced pre-monsoon warming over the Himalayan-Gangetic region from 1979 to 2007
Fundamental to the onset of the Indian Summer Monsoon is the land-sea thermal gradient from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas-Tibetan Plateau (HTP). The timing of the onset is strongly controlled by the meridional tropospheric temperature gradient due to the rapid pre-monsoon heating of the HTP compared to the relatively cooler Indian Ocean.
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Untimely rain a bane for rabi crop
Moderate to heavy rains for the past two days have cast a shadow on the better prospect of rabi crop in the region while the exact degree of impact would come to the fore in the near future only. Besides affecting the quantum of the produce, untimely rains may also affect the eatable quality of the produce.
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April showers play spoilsport
Inclement weather, wet spell to continue Weather forecast that the wet spell might continue in the region for the next few days has both farmers and farm experts worried. As it is, moderate to heavy rain on Monday accompanied by hailstorms is said to have inflicted extensive damage to the standing wheat crop in Punjab and adjoining states.
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Rain pours trouble on farmers
Ludhiana: Hopes of bumper crop washed away Woes continue to pour on Punjab farmers. Rainfall accompanied by hailstorm lashed Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Muktsar, Faridkot, Gurdaspur and some others areas, spelling doom for the wheat crop, which is ready for harvesting, and washing away the hope of a bumper yield.
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Global warming will affect rainfall: Pachauri
Major climatic changes due to global warming would lead to disturbed rainfall patterns in the country, an eminent environmentalist said on Sunday. "The rise in global warming will lead to major changes in rainfall patterns. In essence rainfall will decrease and become more erratic, said RK Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.