Ozone and UV bulletin
The stratosphere ozone layer is slowly recovering and the recovery will be complete in most parts of the atmosphere in the coming decades, according to the latest bulletin by the World Meteorological Organization
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer
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Don’t Panic, Prepare for Poor Rains
The first monsoon forecast of the Met office suggests belownormal rainfall — 95% of the long-period average with an error margin of 5% — from June to September. This is no cause for panic. Other forecasters
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Drought-proofing India
Given the Met’s disastrous track record in predicting the impact of El Nino events—the first projection in 2009 was of a rainfall level of 96% of the long-period average against the actual levels of just
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El Nino may raise pulses
India’s declining per capita availability of pulses is a matter of concern: Study. If El Nino weighs on the monsoon and rains are deficient, the production of pulses is likely to get severely hit and affect
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El Nino doesn’t always cause drought
New Delhi:Amid concerns of deficient rains this monsoon, a new study has shown that since 1980, all El Nino years have not resulted in a drought, although all droughts have happened in years of El Nino.
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Inadequate rainfall adds to misery of farmers in Maharashtra
Aurangabad (Maharashtra): Absence of proper rainfall has risked the farmlands of Aurangabad district in Maharashtra and lack of subsequent effective government intervention is leaving farmers with no option
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Southwest monsoon may be less than normal, says IMD
Southwest monsoon rains this year are likely to be just below normal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its first official forecast on Thursday. The probability of emergence of El Nino
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Meteorological Department warns of 5% deficit in rainfall, predicts 60% chance of El Nino this year
The weather office has forecast a 5% deficit in the June-September southwest monsoon this year but signaled the disruptive El Nino phenomenon could make things much worse for India's largely rain-fed farms,
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Brace for below-normal monsoon
IMD says will update its forecast in June after rains set in El Nino refers to the warmer-than-average sea surface temperature in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean This condition occurs
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South Asia monsoon seen below average to average -WMO
India and its South Asian neighbours are expected to see below average to average rains this year, a forum of weather experts said on Wednesday, if the El Nino weather pattern gains strength during the
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Broad areas of South Asia could see below-normal rains'
A day before India Meteorological Department (IMD) releases its official forecast for the southwest monsoon this year, a forum of weather experts on Wednesday said monsoon rains over broad areas of south