It is impacting on agriculture and making forecasting harder. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HYDERABAD, India - In a small laboratory on the outskirts of the Indian city of Hyderabad, Prof Kirti Sahu is studying raindrops.
The country of 1.4 billion plans its planting season, harvests and even weddings around the seasonal rains. But climate changing emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy, and pollution, are changing the monsoon, impacting on agriculture and making forecasting harder. Climate change is fuelling a range of extreme weather around the world, with wet areas generally getting wetter while dry regions are hit by more droughts.
So crucial are these forecasts that, in 2020, farmers in the state of Madhya Pradesh told Indian media that they planned to file a lawsuit against the state meteorological department for incorrect predictions. Monsoon clouds have also changed their path to traverse across central parts of the country, Prof Sahu said. “Several states ... have witnessed excessive rainfall during the monsoon season,” he said, while others have struggled with historically light rainfall in recent years.
Better forecasts would help authorities prepare for extreme weather, from planning evacuations from floods to adaptation efforts including collecting rainwater where it falls and transporting it to regions stricken by drought, said Dr Rajeevan.In his Hyderabad workshop, Prof Sahu uses a raincloud simulator to study how changes in aerosols, humidity, air currents, temperature and other factors impact on water droplets and influence when raindrops form.
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