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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Delayed monsoon hits PMC's green drive
Pune, July 27 After a long gap, the monsoon has made its reappearance in the city, but its delay has hit the ambitious "Green Pune campaign' of the Pune Municipal Corporation. During the campaign, the PMC had planned to plant 1.85 lakh saplings. "The campaign was planned keeping in mind the entire monsoon season, but the poor rainfall in the first half of the season has hampered the Green Pune campaign,' civic tree officer Balasaheb Jagzap told this paper on Sunday. He said the survival of trees is maximum during the monsoon and the drive was planned keeping that in mind.
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What's happening to the monsoon?
N. Gopal Raj Researchers are noticing changes in the established patterns of monsoon rainfall. still Hopeful: The contribution of July rainfall to the annual rainfall showed a marked decline. Last year, heavy rains in southern India led to the south-west monsoon ending with above-average nationwide rainfall. In striking contrast, this year large parts of the south as well as Maharashtra and Gujarat are suffering a drought. While June ended with surplus rains for the country as a whole, poor rains in July have pushed the national average into a deficit.
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Low pressure triggers heavy rains in Orissa
A low pressure off South Orissa and North Andhra Pradesh coast triggered heavy rains in the City and over many parts of the State on Sunday. The system is likely to become more marked and cause widespread rain over South Orissa during the next two to three days. The Met department said heavy to very heavy rains are likely over some parts of Orissa in the next 48 hours. Under the influence of the system, Balangir got 4 cm rain, highest for the day, while Bhubaneswar received as much. Puri recorded 3 cm rain.
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'It will continue to pour for the next 2 days'
Mumbaikars may wake up to another wet spell on Monday as the weather bureau has warned of very heavy showers in the next 48 hours. "Intermittent rain or thundershowers with possibility of heavy to very heavy rain in parts of city and suburbs is expected during next 48 hours,' K Sathidevi, deputy director of Regional Meteorological Centre said. A landslide at Kapaswadi in Kurla injured one Wasima Sheikh Hassan, who was taken to Sion Hospital. The civic authorities have asked people living in the affected area to move to safer places.
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Paddy output to rise marginally: FAO
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai July 25, 2008, 0:55 IST India's paddy output is likely to rise marginally by 1.39 per cent, or 2 million tonnes, due to favourable monsoon in some major growing areas, says the latest report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The country's total paddy output may rise to 145.5 million tonnes in 2008 as compared to 143.5 million tonnes last year.
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Rs 159-cr Majuli anti-erosion project to start soon
Washing his hands off the devastating floods, Union Minister for Water Resources (MoWR) Prof Saifuddin Soz has clarified that his Ministry cannot control floods but normally comeS into the picture only before and after the onset of the monsoon season. Briefing newsmen about the achievements of his Ministry, Prof Soz said when any State is hit by floods it is the Union Home Ministry's job to provide relief and rehabilitation. "This Ministry cannot control flood,' he clarified.
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Bangla pact on river work
India and Bangladesh have signed a pact in New Delhi on July 17 agreeing not to prevent each other from carrying out anti-erosion work along the border in malda district. The district magistrate of Malda, Chittaranjan Das, said huge plots of Indian land on the border were eroded by the river. "The problem is particularly bad in areas like Old Malda, Habibpur and Bamungola where the border fencing and pillars have gone missing with the Mahananda eating into its banks.'
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Jantar Mantar predicts rain
By Narayan Bareth Jaipur, July 18: Priests and scholars in Jaipur are still using astronomical instruments at the centuries-old Jantar Mantar observatory to predicts the monsoon. The pandits gathered at the observatory on Thursday evening and predicted good rainfall, but said the monsoon would be fragmented.
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Uneven distribution causing concern
MONSOON WATCH Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 18, 2008, 0:51 IST Weighed down by uneven distribution of rains, kharif sowing prospects look uncertain. The southern peninsula is nearly 34 per cent short of rains and the situation in Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan isn't too encouraging either. This has jeopardised the outlook for several crops, including oilseeds, especially groundnut, pulses, notably tur (arhar), cotton and plantations. In fact, paddy and sugarcane can also be adversely affected if the conditions do not improve soon.
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Poor rains in Maharashtra mar high soybean output hope
The poor monsoon in Maharashtra, the country's second largest soybean growing state, has forced farmers to resow the crop, and raised concerns over prospects of a record oilseed output, traders and industry officials said. Farmers will have to resow soybean in 20-25 per cent of total covered area in Maharashtra because of irregular showers, said Ajay Balotia, a Nagpur-based soybean trader. "The (soybean) seeds sown have dried up due to lack of water," said another Nagpur-based trader.