Three metropolitan cities — Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata — will soon get urban radar networks for better weather forecasts on the lines of a similar network unveiled for Mumbai last month, officials said on Wednesday. The Ministry of Earth Sciences launched four X-band weather radars in Mumbai last month, taking the total number of such monitoring systems in the financial capital to six covering an area of nearly 50,000 sq km together.
“We plan to extend similar coverage in the other three metros – Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata within the next one year,” M Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, said.
Under Mission Mausam, the government plans to install 50 Doppler weather radars across the country to strengthen weather forecasting services.
Earlier on 13 September 2024, the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) organized a national-level press interaction on Mission Mausam at Prithvi Bhavan in New Delhi.
Dr M Ravichandran, Secretary, MoES, addressed the media along with Dr. Mritunjay Mohapatra, Director General of India Meteorological Department (IMD), and the Head of National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Dr VS Prasad.
The Union Cabinet approved Mission Mausam on September 11, 2024, with a budget outlay of 2,000 crores over two years, is an ambitious initiative of the Government of India. It aims to make India ‘Weather Ready’ and ‘Climate Smart’. The mission seeks to exponentially enhance the country’s weather and climate observations, understanding, modelling and forecasting, leading to better, more useful, accurate and timely services.
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