April 13, 2025 8:39 am
This comes a week before the India Meteorological Department (IMD) releases the first stage Long Range Forecast for the upcoming monsoon season.
May 29, 2024 7:44 am
La Nina 2024: ENSO is a naturally occurring climate phenomena resulting from ocean-atmosphere interactions. They impact sea surface temperatures along the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
December 02, 2023 8:10 am
At present, the El Nino condition — the warmer than usual sea surface temperatures recorded over the equatorial Pacific Ocean — is inching to its peak. As per the recent observations, the Nino 3.4 region remained 2.4 degrees Celsius above the threshold, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General, IMD, said.
August 31, 2023 10:24 am
By Tuesday morning, the country had received 160 mm of rain this month. Never has the rainfall figure for August been less than 190 mm. What are the likely implications? What is the outlook for September?
June 19, 2023 7:43 pm
Direct seeding of rice, instead of transplanting and flooding of fields, cuts down the massive water consumption of paddy. Why is the DSR method still not very popular?
May 19, 2023 12:05 pm
An El Nino is brewing now and it might be a big and therefore costly one, scientists said.
April 16, 2023 10:53 pm
A clearer picture will emerge only by end-May. The time between now and the start of the season should be used for contingency planning that factors in different scenarios — from the monsoon's delayed onset to its failure in the second half
January 05, 2018 8:53 pm
For the first time, researchers have measured the escalating rate of coral bleaching at locations throughout the tropics over the past four decades.
April 18, 2014 1:11 am
In several El Nino years, rains & food output did not suffer majorly
October 02, 2012 4:33 pm
September ended with a 11 per cent excess as the country received 192 mm rains as against the average of 173.5 mm.





