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
Cyclones
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Mangroves protected villages and reduced death toll during Indian super cyclone
Protection against coastal disasters has been identified as an important service of mangrove ecosystems. Empirical studies on this service have been criticized, however, for using small samples and inadequately controlling for confounding factors. We used data on several hundred villages to test the impact of mangroves on human deaths during a 1999 super cyclone that struck Orissa, India.
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Wind power generation picks up, thanks to storm Bijli
T. Ramakrishnan On April 9 it accounted for about 3 MU and the next day, 4.8 MU CHENNAI: Wind power generation has, suddenly, picked up in the last three-four days, providing some respite to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) that has been purchasing power on a temporary basis at high cost.
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Cyclonic storm hits coastal belt: All preparations to face eventuality: Evacuations from 11 dists
Cyclone Bijli hit the Cox'sbazar and Chittagong coasts with a maximum windspeed of 90 kilometres an hour at 7:30 PM last night. The cyclone was crossing the costal areas when the report filed late last night.
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1.5 lakh families in Bhola outside cyclone shelter coverage
Several lakh people living in the coastal areas of Bhola district are highly vulnerable to cyclones and tidal surges as the shelters constructed the purpose are too inadequate to accommodate the large number of people during natural disasters.
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Cyclonic storm hits coastal belt: All preparations to face eventuality: Evacuations from 11 dists
Cyclone Bijli hit the Cox'sbazar and Chittagong coasts with a maximum windspeed of 90 kilometres an hour at 7:30 PM last night. The cyclone was crossing the costal areas when the report filed late last night.
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Protect the mangroves
The tsunami of December 26, 2004, devastated many coastal areas in Sri Lanka. Curiously, the tsunami spared several areas which had mangroves - dense forests of salt-resistant trees and shrubs that grow in brackish, low-lying coastal swamps in the tropics and subtropics.
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Cyclone alert in Bangla
Disaster-prone Bangladesh braced on Friday for a cyclone gaining strength in the Bay of Bengal, raising the storm warning to signal number six and ordering fishing boats back to shore. The storm
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Assessing vulnerability to climate change in India
The impact of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of people in India is now widely recognised. Yet, there is neither a consensus on the definition of vulnerability to climate change nor a full, regionally-nuanced mapping of the variable impact of such a change.
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Cyclone alert for coastal areas
The National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi, and the Regional Meteorological Centre, Kolkata, today issued a caution stating that a cyclonic storm could hit coastal parts of the state in the next 48 hours.