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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50-yr-old dies of leptospirosis, rain diseases toll 41
Mumbai, July 09 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's epidemiology cell recorded another death due to leptospirosis, taking the overall death toll due to monsoon-related ailments to 41. A 50-year-old man, a resident of Nal Bazar, succumbed to leptospirosis on Wednesday morning at 2 am. He was admitted to the BYL Nair Hospital at Mumbai Central on Thursday.
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Heavy rain in next 24 hours
A child enjoys his journey back home from school through a waterlogged street in north Calcutta. Picture by Sanat Kumar Sinha Showers lashed the city on Wednesday, with the Met office recording the season's second highest rainfall so far. Calcutta received 51.4 mm of rainfall in 24 hours, till 8.30pm on Wednesday. The Met office warned of isolated heavy rainfall in Calcutta and its adjacent areas in the next 24 hours.
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JNNURM funds go down the drain!
By Basavaraj Itnaal, DH News Service, Bangalore: If you thought the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is all prepared to prevent damage from the impending monsoons, heres reason to doubt it: The Palike will instead be busy with curative jobs since its work on remodelling of storm water drains (SWD) is only 30 per cent complete! The Remodelling was scheduled to be completed latest by November 4, 2007. The Palike's contingency plan for this monsoon includes clearing the roadside drains and keeping sandbags and dewatering pumps ready for flood mitigation.
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Absence of rains worries farmers: Health problems too feared
Monsoon rain is not occurring in the State. Clouds are playing hide and seek without raining. In the beginning monsoon has showered its blessings. Farmers became happy and started sowing of crops. The same situation occurred in the different parts of the state. Now, monsoon all of a sudden has dodged and rainfall did not occur for several days. Farmers seem bewildered with the play of clouds. The farmers have sown crops on lakhs of acres of land. Especially, in un-irrigated areas the soyabean crop will start withering due to absence of rain water.
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Drive to unclog Singur
The government has lined up a project to end frequent waterlogging in Singur because the area was about to become "a very important location' on the state's industrial map. "Singur is going to become a very important location... Keeping in view the future of the area
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Watery ground beneath runway
The ground water level at Calcutta airport has risen to six inches below the primary runway this monsoon, adding to safety concerns triggered by rubber deposits and patches of concrete peeling off the main tarmac. "One of the reasons for the surface becoming fragile is the rising water level under the runway. During monsoon, the condition is aggravated, and this is causing moisture accumulation on the runway,' a senior airport official said on Sunday.
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Heavy rains lash Jammu region
Jammuites heaved a sigh of relief from the hot and humid weather after heavy rains lashed several parts of the region this morning. The rains also brought relief for curfew-hit city residents, who were facing unscheduled long power curtailments after the mother Grid Station Gladni was damaged in a fire here on Wednesday night. Heavy rains lashed almost all the parts of the region, reports here said. "The downpour in Jammu city was measured 20.5 mm in the morning," Met department said.
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View Point: It is filth and squalor all around
Like all previous years this year too the Bhopal Municipal Corporation failed to remove the garbage dumps and the rubble piled up on the footpaths and roadsides and desilt and clean the rainwater drains before the onset of the monsoons. Predictably, the unexpectedly heavy early monsoon showers have thrown the city out of gear. Once again the hapless citizens find themselves wading through ankle-deep/ knee-deep waters on the flooded streets and roads. It is a state of deluge in the low-lying areas.
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Kharif on track despite hiccups
Surinder Sud / Mumbai July 4, 2008, 0:09 IST The early rains were expected to give some impetus to kharif sowing. But the initial momentum has been lost due to wavering government policies on agricultural commodities and the weakening monsoon. The pace of sowing has also reportedly been affected by other factors such as a shortage of migratory labour due to the employment guarantee programme, scarcity of phosphatic and potassic fertilisers in some pockets, and the problems faced by farmers in getting bank finance after the loan waiver move.
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Monsoon ailments: Rise in typhoid cases in city
Mumbai, July 2 Doctors caution against self-medication, advise immediate medical intervention Besides large number of cases of leptospirosis, dengue, malaria, gastroenteritis and viral fever, doctors across the city are also seeing a small, but significant, surge in typhoid cases. "Pre-monsoons we saw hardly one typhoid case in 15 days. But now we are getting at least two per week apart from the usual viral fever, malaria and sporadic dengue cases,' said Dr Jayesh Lele, a private practitioner in Malad.