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By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Jan. 22 — The prolonged spell of thick fog in Delhi this season was the worst since 2003. It has put off travel plans, took calls on sending kids to school, rescheduled appointments and also an effort to avoid night driving. It has again affected the life in Delhi.
In fact the [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
NEW DELHI, India: Major part of North India is covered with dense fog from late Friday night and has hit the road, train and air traffic.
At the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in Delhi flight operations came to a standstill Saturday morning. At least 15 flights have been delayed due to less than [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
DELHI, India: The New Year started with a foggy and icy weather for Delhiites. Though the mercury rose marginally to 6.6 degree Celsius, but the city continued to reel under biting cold.
In the morning Delhi was covered with thick fog adding to the woes of morning commuters. The normal visibility range was too [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
DELHI, India: Due to heavy fog in the capital on Wednesday, over 20 flights to and from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) were delayed.
An official of IGIA airport said to the media, “Twenty two in-bound and out-bound domestic flights at Delhi airport were delayed due to the reduced visibility owing to the [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
DELHI, India: Delhi was swept by icy winds Tuesday early in the morning. The city experienced the lowest temperature of the season Tuesday morning with mercury plummeting to 6.4 degree Celsius. The chilly morning was due to the snowfall in the upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh and Kashmir valley.
On Sunday the temperature was [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
The UK Meteorological (Met) Office says that the past ten years have been warmest in the recorded history.
The figures of the weather that is released at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen shows despite 1998 being the warmest year on record. The 90s has been the warmest in the decade. The recorded history [...]
By NIMY Sara Joy
NEW DELHI/ KASHMIR, India: The weather change in Srinagar marked -23.5 degrees Celsius in Leh says the weather officer.
The minimum temperature here dropped to -23.5 degrees whereas the maximum was 9.5 degrees Celsius on Sunday.
Even though, the winter temperature will fall during January, it is weird for the temperature to go down [...]
By NIMY Sara Joy
MUMBAI, India: The depression formed over the Arabian Sea has strengthened into a Cyclone Phyan, with heavy rains and storms forecast for west coast part of India including the financial capital Mumbai.
The India Metrological Department (IMD) has issued an ‘orange’ alert, one step under the red alert put out for a harsh [...]
Heavy Rain disrupts life in Cheenai on Thursday. Traffic on the arterial Anna Salai in the city was thrown into chaos on Friday due to the pouring rain. Rain lashed the city from 3 p.m., inundating not just the usually vulnerable areas, but even roads & plots usually safe from flooding. As roads went under [...]
Heavy rain lashed Hyderabad on Friday evening. Traffic came to a grinding halt for several hours in many areas including Punjagutta, Khairatabad, Somajiguda, Lakdi-Ka-Pul, Ameerpet, Raj Bhavan, Dilsukhnagar, Saidabad, Paradise, Ranigunj & MG Road.
There was water-logging on the main roads including near Model House at Punjagutta, Kavadiguda, M G Road, Lake View guest house, Kalaniketan [...]
The flood situation in Midnapore district of West bengal has been turned worse on Thursday with fresh
areas inundated by Subarnarekha river, leaving nearly three lakh people marooned. Besides Narayangarh, Sabang & Pingla blocks, which were flooded yesterday, about 150 villages in Dantan blocks 1st & 2nd, about 60 km from Kharagpur, went under water last [...]
Heavy rains lashed several parts of Orissa on Tuesday which killed one & raising the specter of floods in many parts of the state. The heavy rains also threw train traffic out of gear & affected the movement of floods in low lying areas.
While the depression over the Bay of Bengal moved in north westerly [...]
Breaking a record of 108 years the monsoon has reached Delhi & Punjab on Sunday. Heavy rains, accompanied by lightning in some areas, lashed the capital & Punjab in the wee hours on Sunday. The Met has recorded a rainfall of 15.3 mm till 11.30 am.
The features of monsoon have been established over the [...]
At least 55 people have been killed over the past 10 days in torrential rains & flooding across south China & more gales & storms were expected in the coming days.
China’s National Meteorological Centre has said that the heavy rain would continue there & that precipitation in the provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan & Yunnan [...]
At least 14 people have been killed in landslides in different places in Itanagar on Saturday. Four members of a family were killed when a large chunk of earth fell on their hut on the slope of a hill this morning.
The rest of the fatalities were reported from different places of Neharlagun. Retired Governor Gen. [...]
The heavy rains lashed Patiala on Saturday. The local meteorological office has recorded a total of 92 mm rain in Patiala on Saturday morning. Heavy rains lashed Patiala yesterday also. The normal life was badly disrupted in Patiala due to heavy rain on Friday. There is a report of one death in Tripuri town of [...]
18 people have been killed in different parts of Maharashtra as heavy rains lashed Maharashtra on Thursday. Four people were struck by lightning in Kolara & Bhorsabhorsi villages in Buldana district of eastern Maharashtra. In Aurangabad, three people were crushed to death & another three injured when a wall collapsed due to heavy rains in [...]
A day after Cyclone Nargis hit Bangladesh & swerved to Myanmar killing 351 people, the meteorological office Monday warned that one more cyclonic storm was developing over the Bay of Bengal. A senior meteorological official said, “At least one cyclonic storm may develop from the depressions in the Bay of Bengal this month”.
The cyclone, would [...]
The weather bureau has predicted rain in Tamil Nadu following the development of cyclonic storm Nargis 700 km southeast of Chennai in the Bay of Bengal, leaving many worried.
Nargis is threatening to whip up speed and intensity, if forecasts by the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC) are any indication.
The JTWC observed that the [...]
All schools have been closed in Orrisa for the summer vacation, at least eight days in advance following heatstroke in Orrisa. At least 25 people died over the last three weeks due to heatstroke. In the Talcher & Angul coal belt, temperatures are seven to eight degrees above normal at 44 degree Celsius.
The heat wave [...]
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