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India: Monsoon: Predicting an unpredictable climate system
2016-07-31 03:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morung Express: As news both good and bad pours from across India, the monsoon is once again in the limelight. From farmers, scientists and economists to astrologers, the monsoon has a significance unlike any other climate phenomenon in India. The monsoon provides around 80 per cent of the total rainfall in India. Getting monsoon predictions right occupies much attention of the weather department in India so that governments can make adjustments to their policies and prepare for droughts or floods according to...
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Climate change affects oceans, monsoon: study
2016-07-02 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A massive bloom of blue-green algae has hit four southern Florida counties, blanketing beaches in foul-smelling muck and raising health and environmental concerns. The green goo along Florida's "Treasure Coast" prompted Gov. Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency in Martin and St. Lucie counties earlier this week, and he later added Lee and Palm Beach counties. Scott "blamed the federal government for neglecting repairs to the lake's aging dike that's considered one of the country's most at-risk...
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Study: climate change warming Asian waters, altering monsoon
2016-07-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Each year as temperatures rise across India, farmers look to the sky and pray for rain. The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 percent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds and harvest their crops. But getting the forecast right remains a challenge, thanks to the complex -- and still poorly understood -- ways in which South Asia's monsoon rains are influenced...
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Climate change warming Asian waters, altering monsoon: Study
2016-07-01 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Each year as temperatures rise across India, farmers look to the sky and pray for rain. The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 per cent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds and harvest their crops. But getting the forecast right remains a challenge, thanks to the complex, and still poorly understood, ways in which South Asia's monsoon rains are influenced...
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India sticks to above normal monsoon forecast for 2016: weather office
2016-06-02 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India's weather office on Thursday stuck to its initial forecast for above average monsoon rains in 2016, boosting hopes for a revival in farm output which could translate into lower food prices and also lower interest rates. The June-September monsoon rains would be 106 percent of a long-term average, the chief of the Indian weather office said, in the second forecast for the four-month long season. Monsoon showers, which typically start from June 1 and cover the entire country by the middle...
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