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
Monsoons
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This year, monsoon takes a new route
Comes In From Arabian Sea Instead Of Bay Of Bengal Mumbai: The monsoon arrived on time. But weather experts have reported a new trend this year: instead of the usual Bay of Bengal route, most of the monsoon systems have hit the country from the Arabian Sea side.
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Yamuna rising, govt issues alert
With the arrival of monsoon in the city and neighbouring states, the Delhi government has on Wednesday asked residents of low-lying areas along the Yamuna river bank to remain alert and if possible shift to safe places.
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Monsoon starts slow, reserve water level low but hope floats
Though the situation is far better than last year, inadequate and erratic rainfall in the month of June has meant that water level in most of the reservoirs in the country is slightly below the average level expected around this time of the year.
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16-hr rainfall throws life out of gear across Himachal
Beas level rises above the danger mark to flood NH near Mandi, road closed for 6 hours With continuous rainfall across the state for nearly 16 hours on the second consecutive day on Tuesday, the level of water in the Beas river in Mandi district crossed the danger mark and flooded the Chandigarh-Manali highway at Dwada towards Manali. Following this, the NH-21 was closed for six hours.
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Abrupt change of Antarctic moisture origin at the end of Termination II
<p>The deuterium excess of polar ice cores documents past changes in evaporation conditions and moisture origin. New data obtained from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica Dome C East Antarctic ice core provide new insights on the sequence of events involved in Termination II, the transition between the penultimate glacial and interglacial periods.
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House panel wary of monsoon preparations
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
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Weatherman forecasts better monsoon days now
NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department on Thursday forecast that there could be some improvement in the monsoon situation over North India this coming week.
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Is snow a rainkiller?
Snowfall in the Himalaya and Tibetan plateau affects monsoon. For two decades snowfall was one of the parameters Indian meteorologists used to predict monsoon in the subcontinent. They believed there was an inverse relation between snowfall in the Himalaya and monsoon; the wider the snow cover, the weaker the rainfall.
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Large-scale wet spell and spatio-temporal rainfall extremes over India during 1951-2007
The main motivation of this comprehensive study is to understand climatological and fluctuation features of the extreme rainfall events (EREs) considering detailed account of spatial variability of rainfall occurrences. Experiences suggest that the EREs are embedded in the large-scale, long period intense rainfall activities during the summer monsoon period.