La Nina is back, but impact may be limited: US agencyThe weather phenomenon known as La Nina has returned, a US agency announced Thursday -- although it is expected to remain weak, limiting it...
10 Oct, 2025, 11.04 AM IST
Monsoon delivers heavy rainfall: July-August poised to be among the wettest in three decadesIndia is experiencing one of the wettest July-August periods in three decades, with rainfall totals expected to surpass the long-term avera...
30 Aug, 2024, 02.00 PM IST
Heat stress is plunging the world’s coral reefs into crisisCorals support economic activity worth trillions a year, including $36 billion in tourism, according to a study by the Global Coral Reef Mo...
18 Apr, 2024, 11.35 AM IST
El Nino, La Nina impact on monsoon strongest in north, least in central India: StudyThe El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate pattern's impact on monsoon rain over north India has become much stronger recently, while ...
09 Aug, 2023, 08.49 PM IST
El Nino expected to return, likely to fuel spike in global temperatures: WMOEl Nino and La Nina are major, but not the only, drivers of the Earth's climate system. In addition to the long-established ENSO Update, WM...
03 Mar, 2023, 04.38 PM IST
ET View: Normal monsoons good auguryThe IMD projection says rainfall is likely to be 100% of the Long Period Average (LPA) precipitation for the country as a whole, with a mod...
15 Apr, 2020, 07.19 PM IST
Brace for a scorching summer, says the Meteorological DepartmentTemperatures are likely to be 0.5-1.0 degree Celsius above normal in many parts of the country from March, the weather office said. The mon...
29 Feb, 2020, 11.07 AM IST
Global warming never stopped in last hundred years: Study"Our study suggests that future climate conditions will likely rely on competition between multidecadal cooling and global warming if the m...
14 Nov, 2018, 02.35 PM IST
How good is our monsoon forecast this year depends on how well we understand El NinoEl Nino is accompanied by lower atmospheric pressure in the eastern tropical Pacific and higher pressure in the western Pacific.
23 Apr, 2017, 12.59 AM IST
Predicting the rains, despite the many scientific advances, continues to stump the weathermenOver the last decade, meteorologists have added a few more puzzling phenomena to their list of things that have to be explained by physics.
29 Sep, 2016, 01.49 AM IST
Climate change, El Niño & Pacific Decadal Oscillation could result to unbearable summer this year“The year whose annual mean temperature is likely to be most strongly influenced by the current El Niño is 2016 rather than 2015,” the WMO ...
16 Jan, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
World oceans rising dangerously, says NASAOceans around the world are rising dangerously, warns NASA, adding that the ramifications of sea level rise can be even scarier than predic...
27 Aug, 2015, 06.34 PM IST
Sea surface temperatures to predict rainfallA team from IITM and IISER, Pune used historical meteorological data and modern modelling techniques to predict monsoon pattern.
26 Jul, 2015, 12.14 PM IST
Heat wave across North India as rest of the world braces for El NinoMaintaining a dry weather for the country, IMD said that isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur over Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
22 May, 2014, 11.08 AM IST
Heat wave across North India as rest of the world braces for El NinoMaintaining a dry weather for the country, IMD said that isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur over Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
21 May, 2014, 07.32 PM IST
Retail inflation may get stuck at 8-10%: Bank of America Merrill Lynch reportWhile wholesale inflation in March rose to a three-month high of 5.7%, retail inflation inched up to 8.31% after softening for three straig...
16 Apr, 2014, 04.56 PM IST
Weak monsoon may lead to another year of sub-5% growth for IndiaIndia could face yet another year of sub 5 per cent growth, if monsoon are below normal this year, a Citigroup report says.
24 Mar, 2014, 05.27 PM IST