‘I never compete with IMD, they are my mentors: Weather enthusiast Rajesh Kapadia

With daily 2000-3000 visitors on his blog, Kapadia and his co-authors Abhijit Modak, Rohit Aroskar and Gurvinder Bagga keep a close watch on the pattern of weather in the Indian subcontinent.

‘I never compete with IMD, they are my mentors: Weather enthusiast Rajesh Kapadia
A post in the blog ‘Vagaries of The Weather’ on August 29 this year that the “Mumbai rain fury is over....much reduced rains on Wednesday and amount may not exceed even 30-45 mms” elicited fulsome praise by weather enthusiasts, the aam aadmi and 64-year-old Rajesh Kapadia from Mumbai.

The post contradicted the India Meteorological Department or IMD, which had forecast heavy rains to continue on August 30. “I never compete with IMD. They are my mentors. Whatever I have learnt and now teach to fellow weather enthusiasts is from my initial learning at IMD Colaba station,” says the retired businessmen who for the better part of his life has manufactured engine bearings and now is the founder of the blog which gives daily forecast on Mumbai weather.

With daily 2000-3000 visitors on his blog, Kapadia and his co-authors Abhijit Modak, Rohit Aroskar and Gurvinder Bagga keep a close watch on the pattern of weather in the Indian subcontinent. His followers are from India, but Pakistan where Mohammad Waqas has started a ‘Vagaries Pakistan’ page. “Weather has no boundary. The smog in Delhi is also covering Pakistan,” he quips.
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