India Meteorological Division (IMD), Director Common Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, on Tuesday highlighted the challenges posed by local weather change to the climate forecasters, saying that the continued phenomenon has led to excessive climate situations on this planet.
Chatting with ANI, he additionally famous that the IMD had taken steps to beat the challenges posed by local weather change to detect and predict the smallest climate adjustments.
“Local weather change is an ongoing phenomenon… It restricts climate forecasts. Our forecast accuracy of heavy rainfall has elevated from 60 per cent to 80 per cent within the final 5 years. We now have taken steps to beat the challenges of local weather change so we will detect and predict the smallest climate adjustments,” Mohapatra mentioned.
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Reflecting on the lightning forecast that IMD began in 2019, he mentioned, “We began forecasting lightning in April 2019. Solely 5 international locations on this planet can predict lightning. To check lightning, we’re inaugurating a analysis take a look at centre in Balasore with the cooperation of ISRO and DRDO. Further commentary programs have been deployed in Jharkhand, Odisha, and Gangetic West Bengal. We are going to research the lightning course of.
He additionally acknowledged that the accuracy of climate forecasting has elevated by 40-50 per cent.
“… Previously 10 years, climate forecasting accuracy (of IMD) has elevated by 40-50 per cent… After we began, we had 80 commentary stations. Now we now have 550 departmental observatories, 2000 automated climate stations, and Doppler radars in 39 locations. 34 extra radars shall be arrange by 2026… These observational augmentations will assist us improve our forecast accuracy by 10-15 per cent within the subsequent 5 years.,” IMD DG mentioned.
He underlines IMD’s efforts to make climate forecasts extra accessible in each family.
“We lately began the ‘Har Har Mausam and Har Ghar Mausam’ marketing campaign to make exact climate forecasts extra accessible in each family. We now have developed a ‘Mausam’ cellular app that gives climate predictions for each hour within the subsequent 36 hours… With the cooperation of the Panchayati Raj Ministry, we’re additionally sending climate forecasts to ward members, sarpanchs, and panchayat secretaries. With the assistance of the Rural Improvement Ministry, ladies related to agriculture and animals are additionally getting the forecast,” he added.
