Monsoon 2023: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) mentioned that individuals in Mumbai will obtain weather updates on their mobile phones by means of SMSes during monsoon this year.
The District Disaster Management Department has arrange a management room to present well timed alerts about weather situations and it has a mechanism to present real-time weather alerts, the BMC mentioned in a launch on Tuesday. “An SMS alert will be sent to citizens during an emergency,” it mentioned.
BMC Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on Tuesday chaired a gathering with varied businesses on catastrophe administration and monsoon preparedness. Officials of BEST, MMRDA, MSRDC, PWD, Mumbai Metro, Railways, NDRF, IMD, MHADA and different businesses together with civic officers attended the assembly.
BMC prepares to sort out monsoon challenges
Chahal directed all departments and businesses to expedite coordination to mitigate the doable challenges during the monsoon, the discharge mentioned.
Meanwhile, India Meteorological Department (IMD) acknowledged that the onset of monsoon over Kerala is probably going to be delayed this year, predicting its arrival on June 4, 4 days after the traditional date predicted on June 1.
“Southwest monsoon normally sets in over Kerala on June 1 with a standard deviation of about 7 days. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has been issuing operational forecasts for the date of monsoon onset over Kerala from 2005 onwards. An indigenously developed state-of-the-art statistical model with a model error of +- 4 days is used for the purpose,” IMD acknowledged.
Last year, the monsoon over Kerala occurred on May 29, two days after IMD’s prediction on May 27. According to the weather company, the operational forecasts of the date of monsoon onset over Kerala during the previous 18 years (2005-2022) have been proved to be appropriate besides in 2015.
ALSO READ: India to witness regular monsoon this year regardless of El Nino situation, says IMD
As per the IMD, the six predictors of monsoon onset used within the fashions are:
- Minimum Temperatures over Northwest India
- Pre-monsoon rainfall peak over the south Peninsula
- Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) over the South China Sea
- Lower tropospheric zonal wind over Southeast Indian Ocean
- Mean sea degree stress over Subtropical NW Pacific Ocean
- Upper tropospheric zonal wind over North East Indian Ocean
The southwest monsoon over the Indian mainland is marked by monsoon onset over Kerala and is a crucial indicator characterizing the transition from a scorching and dry season to a rainy season.
It needs to be talked about right here that IMD defines common, or regular, rainfall as between 96% and 104% of a 50-year common of 88 centimetres (35 inches) for the season. Last year, monsoon rains have been 106% of the common, strengthening meals grain output in 2022-23.
(With inputs from businesses)
