-The Indian Express Heatwaves, floods, droughts: Every decade between 1951-2015 had 7.4 warmer days and 3.1 warmer nights than the annual averages for daily maximum and nightly minimum respectively. The first ‘Assessment of Climate Change over Indian Region’, released by the Ministry of Earth Sciences recently, warns of tropical cyclones, Thunderstorms, heat waves, floods and droughts in India unless mitigation measures are adopted soon. The projections are for the decades leading to...
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Lightning kills 83 in Bihar, glare on app -Dev Raj
-The Telegraph High toll indicates that the system has not made any significant difference Patna: At least 83 people were killed by lightning across Bihar on Thursday as heavy rains and Thunderstorms lashed the state. “A total of 83 people have lost their lives in lightning strikes in 23 out of 38 districts in Bihar till Thursday evening. Of these, 13 deaths have taken place in Gopalganj, eight each in Madhubani and Nawada,...
More »IMD launches systems for probabilistic weather forecasting
-The Indian Express “The new system will tell us the probability of rainfall according to its intensity and volume. This will be colour coded for ease of interpretation,” said IMD Director General KJ Ramesh. New Delhi: The India Met Department (IMD) on Friday launched two “very high resolution” Ensemble Prediction Systems, to generate ten-day probabilistic weather forecasts. In simple terms, the new systems in place can provide rainfall forecasts with probabilities...
More »What's behind the intense storms battering North West India? Experts divided, call for more research
-Scroll.in Some believe the ‘peculiar’ Thunderstorms and dust storms are because of a change in the pattern of winter storms, or rising heat. Several of India’s northern states – particularly Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi – have experienced a spate of severe Thunderstorms and dust storms with strong winds and lightning in the past month. The storms have killed over 124 people and left a trail of devastation. According to the Indian...
More »Storms kill more in 5 weeks than all of 2017 -Amit Bhattacharya
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Storms across the country have killed more people since April 11 than all of last year. Since Sunday, Thunderstorms claimed 94 lives across six states, taking the death toll in storms since April to 278. Fatalities in the first two weeks of May stand at 223, while 55 people died in April. Last year, storms claimed 197 lives, while the toll in 2016 was 216. The...
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