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Monday, January 9, 2012

State to have automatic weather stations, doppler radars

Air Marshal Ajit Tyagi (retd.) lays the foundation stone of the new building of the Meteorological Department in Dehradun
Air Marshal Ajit Tyagi (retd.) lays the foundation stone of the new building
 of the Meteorological Department in Dehradun on Monday.
Dehradun, January 9
For refinement of weather predictions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) will be setting up automatic weather stations at the districts and two doppler weather radars in Uttarakhand for monitoring of areas where heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and hailstorms are expected.
“We intend to use technology for real-time access to data. This kind of data will be helpful for farmers. Presently we are unable to provide such data. The GPRS manned automatic weather stations would be able to monitor hour by hour weather updates. We are also installing doppler weather radars in Mussoorie and Nainital,”said Director General IMD Air Marshal (retd) Ajit Tyagi, while speaking with The Tribune.
He was here in Dehradun to inaugurate the meteorological centre.
He said the district-level automatic weather stations in the states would boost the overall improvement in weather prediction at the all-India level. “Though we have a fairly good number of observatories, all the districts are not covered. This kind of data will be helpful for the farmers also,” he said.
The DG said there was also need to strengthen ground-level weather stations and admitted grey areas in weather prediction depended on local conditions. “These have to be minutely observed. Each weather development has to be monitored right from when it starts and how it proceeds to its culmination point. We have to strengthen our observation systems to the extent that we are able to monitor the randomly occurring weather changes and give timely warning to the people,” he said.
Air Marshal (retd.) Ajit Tyagi also said that two 100-year-old weather observatories are already functional in Mukteshwar and Dehradun. “These observatories, established during the British period, continue to provide us data and are testimony to the fact that the record keeping of data with the help of these observatories has continued uninterrupted,” he said.
Meanwhile, the DG today inaugurated the meteorological Centre to be built on Haridwar road by the CPWD, Dehradun circle. Once the centre becomes operational, it will be able to provide forecast to the farmers, aviation centre and the general public. 

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