Context India has not experienced a normal winter in three years. It has remained unusually dry and hot. In this winter, for instance, the country experienced its hottest ever December, as per the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The northwest region, …
What is Bomb Cyclone? Storms can form when a mass of low-pressure air meets a high-pressure mass. The air flows from high pressure to low, creating winds. What defines a bomb cyclone is how rapidly the pressure drops in the …
About El Nino and La Nina During normal conditions in the Pacific ocean, trade winds blow west along the equator, taking warm water from South America towards Asia. To replace that warm water, cold water rises from the depths — …
Context The world is seeing a rise in cyclonic formations and in recent years, several storms have come close to undergoing the Fujiwhara effect. Fujiwhara effect The Fujiwhara Effect was first described by a Japanese meteorologist, Dr. Sakuhei Fujiwhara in …
About Vernon Dvorak Dvorak was an American meteorologist best credited for developing the Dvorak technique in the early 1970s. The technique has been upgraded multiple times since then, and after a recent software update this year, it has been named …
What’s the news? According to a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the past seven years were the warmest on record, and 2021 did not see record-breaking temperatures because of a La Niña event at the start and end …
Sea levels along almost the entire Indian coast are rising faster than the global average, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) State of the Global Climate in 2021 report. Globally, the rate of sea-level rise was 4.5 millimetre per …
An urban heat island is a local and temporary phenomenon experienced when certain pockets within a city experience higher heat load than surrounding or neighbouring areas on the same day. The variations are mainly due to heat remaining trapped within …
A report released in 2020 by the technical group on population projections constituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare indicates that India’s population is expected to touch 1.52 billion by 2036. The distribution of water in India’s cities …
It is expected that India’s per capita water availability will decline to 1,401 cubic metres and 1,191 cubic metres by 2025 and 2050, respectively. The average domestic water demand will also increase from 85 litres per capita per day (lpcd) …