The IMD currently gives zone-specific daily monsoon forecast during the season for northwest, central India, southern peninsula and east an...

Skymet also says that 1997 was an El Nino year, with the weather office forecast of 92 per cent of the average rainfall over the season.

While IMD's predicted monsoon in 2015 would be 93% of the long-term normal, the forecast was 95% for 2014. Both years, El Nino drove the be...

The monsoon prediction by Skymet comes a week ahead of the long-range forecast of the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The study is based on a database of 111 coal power plants representing a generation capacity of 121 GW.

A cyclonic circulation off the west coast that has already seen monsoon through Konkan is likely to intensify into a low pressure system.

According to UN's NCEP latest update, El Nino Southern Oscillation neutral conditions (near normal temperatures of the Pacific) are expecte...

Showers in Karnataka would support cotton sowing while land preparation in Haryana would go well under mostly dry weather.

The IMD monsoon forecast seems to be cautious though the depart-ment has predicted a 98% of the normal long-period average (LPA).

Rainfall is expected to increase over North and South India while in Central, East and the North East, it will continue to be scanty in the...