India Meteorological Department

Onward and spillward

Jan 28, 2025 2 min read

‘The Lunacy Of Rebuilding In Disaster-Prone Areas’, Noema, April 25, 2024: In the months after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans proposed a flood control program unlike any other in U.S. history. Develo…

Tamil Nadu's lukewarm heatwave policy

Nov 21, 2024 1 min read

Op-eds Science comorbidities COVID-19 pandemic disaster relief heat injury heatwave India Meteorological Department natural disaster State Disaster Response Fund Tamil Nadu

From 'Tamil Nadu heatwave policy is only a start', The Hindu, November 21, 2024: Estimates of a heatwave’s deadliness are typically based on the extent to which the ambient temperature deviat…

The cost of forgetting Ballia

Jun 1, 2024 2 min read

Analysis Op-eds Ballia Election Commission of India heat wave India Meteorological Department Lok Sabha elections Mirzapur National Disaster Management Authority The Hindu Uttar Pradesh

Actively papering over the effects of extreme weather has to be the most self-destructive thing we’re capable of in the climate change era.…

Reading fog data from INSAT 3DR

Jan 21, 2021 4 min read

Scicomm albedo atmospheric science atmospheric sounder brightness temperature cumulonimbus humidity India Meteorological Department Indian Space Research Organisation INSAT 3A INSAT 3D INSAT 3DR ISRO Space Applications Centre Kalpana 1 microphysics optical radiometry radiometer solar reflectance storm forecast VHRR weather forecasting

At 7.57 am today, the India Meteorological Department's Twitter handle posted this lovely image of fog over North India on January 21, as captured by the INSAT 3DR satellite. However, it didn'…