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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Cat 4 Hurricane Ike Fiercer, Hanna Strengthens
Hurricane Ike strengthened rapidly into an fiercely dangerous Category 4 hurricane in the open Atlantic on Wednesday and Tropical Storm Hanna intensified to a lesser degree as it swirled over the Bahamas toward the southeast US Coast. Ike posed no immediate threat to land but strengthened explosively, growing in the space of a few hours from a tropical storm to an intense Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale.
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Global warming packing power into hurricanes
Warm Seas Convert More Energy Into Cyclone Winds Paris: Global warming is likely to boost the power of the strongest tropical cyclones, a study released on Wednesday says. An additional 1
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The increasing intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones
Atlantic tropical cyclones are getting stronger on average, with a 30-year trend that has been related to an increase in ocean temperatures over the Atlantic Ocean and elsewhere. Over the rest
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Hurricanes are getting fiercer
As this year's Atlantic hurricane season becomes ever more violent, scientists have come up with the firmest evidence so far that global warming will significantly increase the intensity of the most extreme storms worldwide.
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South Asia
Loss from Sidr: The economic loss caused by super cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, is more than us $ 4.4 billion, reveals a survey conducted by the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh. The cyclone completely destroyed about 4,10,000 hectares of farmland and damaged 12 lakh tonnes of the Aman paddy crop, which accounts for 40 per cent of the
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Electronic Atlas of cyclones released
Handy tool: Director General of Meteorology Ajit Tyagi (centre) handing over the first copy of the Cyclone eAtlas-IMD CD to NIOT director S.Kathiroli in Chennai on Tuesday. R.V. Sharma, Deputy Director General of Meteorology, RMC, is in the picture.
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The next ten years
What's going to happen over the next decade? New Scientist looks at the latest forecasts - and how reliable they are.
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Climate change: Impact on forests
IT is beyond doubt that Bangladesh is one of the badly affected countries from the impacts of climate change. Therefore, it is no more any fashion rather an imperative to call for effective measures for combating climate change.
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Humanitarian implications of climate change: mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots
This study identifies the most likely humanitarian implications of climate change for the next 20-30 year period. The authors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to map specific hazards associated with climate change
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Junta skimmed off 5m cyclone aid
London, July 30: The United Nations has admitted that