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An IMD official said historical patterns suggested strong El Niño episodes often weakened and transitioned towards neutral or La Niña conditions PUNE: Major El Niño events often weaken substantially before the subsequent monsoon, meteorologists told TOI on Saturday, easing concerns about the system’s potential impact on India’s 2027 rainy season. This comes amid forecasts that…
El Niño is a climate pattern of warming of the ocean surface in central and eastern tropical Pacific. NEW DELHI: With the shadow of El Niño looming large over India due to its potentially negative impact on monsoon, a study by a group of farm scientists from an ICAR institution shows that El Niño years…
El Nino’s shadow over this year’s monsoon in India may have just got longer. Latest forecasts from international agencies suggest El Nino could be just weeks away, setting in earlier than expected. It’s now likely that the weather condition will prevail during most of the four-month monsoon period as opposed to previous expectations that it’ll…
Step outside into 45-47°C heat and it is not just uncomfortable. It is immediate and overwhelming. The sun beats down relentlessly as the air feels heavy and unbearably still, hitting your face like a wave from an open furnace and clinging to the skin even as you step into shade. Within minutes, the body begins…
If a weaker monsoon impacts the output of crops, then higher food prices will feed quickly into inflation, a risk that is too real to be ignored. (AI image) India, backed by its strong domestic growth story, is the world’s fastest growing major economy. Which is not to say it is without its vulnerabilities. The…
The government on Saturday said the threat posed by a possible El Nino this year is unlikely to cause major damage to agriculture, pointing to stronger irrigation systems, higher reservoir storage and better preparedness than in past drought-linked years.The assurance came after Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan chaired a review meeting ahead of the Kharif…
Around 70% of all El Nino years since 1980 have corresponded with poor summer monsoons, showing that the link between the Pacific condition and the country’s June-Sept rains is one of the strongest among global weather phenomena impacting India’s rainy season. The link assumes importance in light of latest forecasts from US and European weather…
NEW DELHI: In what may be bad news for India’s farm sector and rural economy, IMD on Monday predicted a ‘below normal’ southwest monsoon (June-Sept) in the country amid growing risk of El Nino, which is linked to depressed summer rainfall over India. “Quantitatively, the seasonal rainfall over the country is likely to be 92%…
Strengthening the forecasts of an El Nino forming this year, the latest update from the US national weather agency says the weather condition linked to deficient monsoon rains in India may set in as early as the June-Aug trimester, with a one-in-three chance that it would go on to develop into a strong event.The update…
Premature To Say Anything For Sure: Experts NEW DELHI: Latest update from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on the possibility of El Nino episode later this year may be bad news for India’s monsoon. Though, experts said, it would be premature to say anything definitely at this juncture, an El Nino year usually negatively impacts…
