Weather and Climate

New Delhi, Jun 26 (PTI) The Southwest Monsoon has covered the entire country nearly two weeks ahead of its schedule, the India Meteorological Department said Friday.The monsoon usually sets over Kerala on June 1 and it takes 45 days...

New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) The Ministry of Earth Sciences on Tuesday said that an annular solar eclipse will occur on June 21 and the celestial event will be visible in Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttarakhand.A solar eclipse occurs on...

New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department on Friday forecast that another low-pressure system could form in the Bay of Bengal by June 10, over three weeks after Cyclone ''Amphan'' wreaked havoc in West Bengal.The development comes...

New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) The deep depression in the Arabian Sea strengthened into a cyclonic storm ''Nisarga'' on Tuesday morning and will make landfall close to Alibag, 94 kms south of Mumbai on the afternoon of June 3.It...

Thiruvananthapuram, June 1 (PTI) With the Southwest monsoon setting in over Kerala on Monday, several parts of the state received heavy to very heavy rains, especially Vatakara in Kozhikode, which received 15 cm of rain, following which a red...

New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) Cyclonic storm ''Nisarga'' will affect the coastal districts of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, more than Gujarat and other neighbouring states, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday.The IMD said that the depression in the Arabian...

New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) For the last few days Delhi and other states of north India have been experiencing extreme heat wave conditions but the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday said there will be some respite from...

New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) Heatwave conditions intensified in most parts of the northern states on Tuesday, with Churu in Rajasthan scorching at 50-degree Celsius and the mercury breaching the 47-degree mark in parts of the national capital.Kuldeep Srivastava,...

New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department on Monday said that extremely severe cyclonic storm "Amphan" over the west and central parts of Bay of Bengal has intensified into a "super cyclone" with wind speed above 200...

New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday that the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm named ''Amphan''."The deep depression over Southeast Bay of Bengal and the...