India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Government is aware of the India Meteorological Department's (IMD) long-range forecast issued for the 2025 SW monsoon season. Every year, IMD issues the long-range forecast (LRF) for the monsoon season (June to September) in two stages; In April and in May. Both these forecasts issued for 2025 indicated above-normal rainfall during the Southwest Monsoon season 2025. Along with these forecasts, the expected spatial ...
India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: It has been observed that due to global warming, there is a rising trend in the frequency and intensity of heatwaves in various parts of the globe, including India. The trend in heatwave conditions across the country has been analysed by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) based on datasets from 1961 to 2020. In general, there is an increasing trend in the frequency of heatwaves in the heat core zone covering nor...
India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has launched the Gram Panchayat Level Weather Forecasting (GPLWF) initiative. The India Meteorological Department (IMD), in collaboration with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR), launched the GPLWF for nearly all Gram Panchayats across the country on 24th October 2024. At present, monitoring of local weather conditions across the county, including Dadra Nagar Haveli, is done th...
India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Mission Mausam is currently in the beginning phase of its implementation. However, once implemented, this project will help in the overall improvement of the short and medium-range weather forecast accuracy by about 5-10 %. Radars, satellite products, and AWS/ARG are needed mainly for nowcast or for very short duration forecasts for improving location-based forecasts of likely occurrences of thunderstorms and heavy ra...
India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Government is aware of the recent report by IPE Global and Esri India, which finds that cities in India will face a two-fold rise in heatwave days and an increase in extreme rainfall events by 2030. It reveals that by 2030, climate change is expected to drive a 43% rise in the intensity of extreme rainfall events across India, making the country hotter and wetter. India Meteorological Department (IMD) continuously...
India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The design and integration of the human submersible (MATSYA-6000) to carry three persons to a depth of 6000 meters, completed by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, as part of the Deep Ocean Mission. The wet harbour trials of MATSYA-6000 were successfully conducted in January-February 2025 at L&T Shipbuilding Facility in Katupalli, near Tamil Nadu. MATSYA-6...
India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) and other MoES institutions have been using AI-based tools for experimental weather and climate forecasting. These include the Advanced Dvorak Technique (AiDT) used for estimate cyclone intensity, AI/ML-based foundation, hybrid (AI+Dynamical) models for weather prediction,etc. The following are the research works done in AI/ML related to weather forecasts. Short-range global ...
India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Being the nodal agency for landslide studies, Geological Survey of India (GSI) has completed the landslide susceptibility mapping under the National Landslide Susceptibility Mapping (NLSM) programme on 1: 50,000 scale for the entire landslide prone hilly/ mountainous areas of the country including the Himalayan region, the Tertiary Belt of North-eastern India and Western Ghats, spreading over parts of 19 states/ UTs co...
India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The real-time communication channels that exist between India Meteorological Department (IMD), Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), National Centre for Seismology (NCS), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), various scientific institutions such as Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and State Governments for data sharing. It is also important to mention that IMD and NCS -MoES s...
India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The expenditure under ten percent Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) mechanism of Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes by non exempted Ministries/Departments/Organizations(MDOs) is monitored by the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region. In accordance with the Department of Expenditure's Office Memorandum dated 5th May 2017, quarterly review meeting with all non-exempted Ministries/Departments is regularl...