Indian Meteorological Department, which studies and makes predictions about the weather, has significantly improved its predictive capabilities for rainfall in recent years, the government of India said. “The absolute error of the IMD’s monsoon forecasts for the seasonal rainfall over the country has shown significant decrease after the implementation of the new statistical ensemble forecasting […]
A building has collapsed in heavy rain in Pydhonie area in South Mumbai. This is the second mishap since heavy rains started about 48 hours ago. There is no confirmation of human casualties in the collapse of the MHADA building. Fire trucks have been rushed to the building and the National Disaster Relief Force has […]
Despite a good monsoon, levels of water in the country’s big river water reservoirs are substantially below where they were last year, and are also well below the average levels seen in the last ten years. The only exception was South India, which had seen extreme water stress last year. On average, the quantity of […]
Despite a decent monsoon season, water levels at storage facilities in India continues to be below those of last year as well as the 10-year average. Of particular concern is the situation in South India, only 39% of the total capacity of the reservoirs has been filled so far. Usually, the number should have been […]
Water levels of dams in central and south India are abnormally low this year, going by data of hydro-electricity production across India. According to data of electricity produced by dams in India from April 2016 to February 2017, both the south and central India are facing extreme shortage of water. The average production of hydro-electricity […]
