-Newsclick.in Kharif sowing has almost stopped with the state not receiving even 10% of the expected rains. Maharashtra faces uncertainty both politically and agriculturally. While the ruling Shiv Sena’s rebel leader and MLA Eknath Shinde plans to head to Mumbai along with his faction to grab power, farmers of the state face an uncertain future with 41.4% deficient rainfall, leading to a virtual halt in the sowing of Kharif crops. According to the...
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Northeast battles deluge but IMD says monsoon rain declined over three decades -Jayashree Nandi
-Hindustan Times Nearly every year these parts of the northeast suffer deluge during monsoon months. However, IMD’s analysis of ‘rainfall variability and changes over different states’ for the period between 1989 and 2018 for Assam suggests that monthly rainfall for all monsoon months between June and September is recording a decreasing trend. The flood situation in Assam and Meghalaya continued to remain alarming due to ongoing extremely heavy rainfall in the northeastern...
More »Monsoon has turned normal, IMD says. But it really hasn’t if you see regional variations -Simrin Sirur
-ThePrint.in While heavy rains have lashed parts of Assam and Meghalaya in the northeast, planting of rain-fed kharif crops has been delayed in Odisha, where the rain deficit is 39%. New Delhi: After a slow start, the four-month-long Southwest monsoon has finally turned normal, data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) shows. Compared to a 42 per cent deficit in rainfall recorded on 8 June, the monsoon entered normal territory Tuesday at 98...
More »Monsoon rains likely to be well distributed, says IMD -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph India Meteorological Department has predicted 33 per cent probability of normal rainfall and 16 per cent probability of above normal rainfall Monsoon rains this year are likely to be well distributed with most parts of India expected to receive normal or above normal rainfall, the national weather agency said on Tuesday, predicting rainfall quantum to be 103 per cent of the long-period average. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted that the...
More »1,750 Indians died due to extreme weather events in 2021, says new IMD report
In the month of January this year, more than 100 homeless persons died (please click here and here to access) in Delhi-NCR due to cold wave like conditions. Although a Delhi-based non-government organisation (NGO) Centre for Holistic Development (CHD) made that claim, and therefore asked the Chief Minister of Delhi to make proper arrangements for the homeless poor during winters, the officials of the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB)...
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