Sate-wise monsoon forecast |
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) will start giving state-specific monsoon forecast from 2017 apart from zone-wise prediction. India`s minister for earth sciences Harsh Vardhan also announced that from 2018-19 it will be extended to include other seasons. This is made possible with the approval of the National Monsoon Mission. Big computers have already been installed, the programmes have been put in place. It will reach the block level in next 2-3 years,The IMD currently gives zone-specific daily monsoon forecast during the season for northwest, central India, southern peninsula and east and northeast regions. It is further divided into sub-zones.Climate Forecast System (CFS) of NCEP, USA has been identified as the basic modelling system for the purpose as it is one of the best among the currently available models.
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