Private forecaster predicts normal monsoon this year

Despite weather predictions of neither an exceptional nor sustained South Island ski season, ANNA KEELING feels there is no great need for concern. A hearty dusting of snow whitens the distant hills. Mt Hutt sends a press release with photos of ...

The India Meteorological Department's forecast that Tamil Nadu will receive less than normal rainfall during the southwest monsoon this year has many farmers in the region worried. The IMD has, however, forecast normal monsoon throughout the ...

To what extent does the Tibetan plateau influence the south-west monsoon? Some 130 years ago, Sir H.F. Blanford, Chief Reporter of the newly-established India Meteorological Department (IMD), noticed that more Himalayan snow cover during the ...

Is there a connection? And if so, how does it work? Does a warming world lead to more El Ninos? More La Ninas? Or more intense El Ninos and La Ninas? Lots of processes affect the climate. Certainly greenhouse gases have an effect and it's clear that ...

The eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, a finger of the southern polar continent that juts toward South America, has experienced summer warming of perhaps a half-degree per decade - a greater rate than possibly anywhere else on Earth - in the ...

_ 1. There's the old saying in Colorado, if you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes (or something like that). Is the weather in Colorado truly more unpredictable than other regions, or are there other areas of the U.S. that are just as ...

GHERINGHAP farmer Des Guinane knew it had been dry. When he found one of his lambs had fallen down a crack in the ground, he knew his "pitch" wouldn't pass the car key test. The lamb's rear end was still above ground, and Mr Guinane simply pulled it ...

Articles - Superstorm Sandy has fuelled the debate about how climate change may be impacting hurricanes and hurricane losses. Are recent storms, such as Sandy, evidence were seeing more destructive hurricanes due to long term climate change or are ...

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