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Module 6: Weather Forecasting Modules Lessons

This document discusses a lesson on weather forecasting. It begins by asking what weather forecasting is, how weather is predicted, how reliable forecasts are, and what the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is and how it conducts forecasts. It then proceeds to answer each question in turn, explaining that weather forecasting involves collecting data using tools like satellites and computers to interpret conditions and predict future weather, and that while forecasts rely on sophisticated models and data, predictions can still sometimes be less accurate due to rapidly changing atmospheric conditions. The IMD operates various regional and national forecasting centers across India.

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Module 6: Weather Forecasting Modules Lessons

This document discusses a lesson on weather forecasting. It begins by asking what weather forecasting is, how weather is predicted, how reliable forecasts are, and what the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is and how it conducts forecasts. It then proceeds to answer each question in turn, explaining that weather forecasting involves collecting data using tools like satellites and computers to interpret conditions and predict future weather, and that while forecasts rely on sophisticated models and data, predictions can still sometimes be less accurate due to rapidly changing atmospheric conditions. The IMD operates various regional and national forecasting centers across India.

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Module 6: Weather Forecasting

Virtual Academy for the Semi Arid Tropics

Modules Lessons

Lesson 2: About weather forecasting

After completing this Lesson, you have learned


to answer:

1. What is weather forecasting?


2. How weather is predicted?
3. How reliable is this weather forecasting?
4. What is Indian Meteorological
Department (IMD) and how weather
forecasting is carried out by IMD?

Course on Crop-Weather Relationships


Module 6: Weather Forecasting
Virtual Academy for the Semi Arid Tropics

Modules Lessons

Lesson 2: About weather forecasting

What is weather forecasting?

• Weather forecasting is a prediction of what the


weather will be like in an hour, tomorrow, next week
or during a season.

• Weather forecasts, such as:


"Look for cloudy skies with afternoon
thunderstorms and a high of 380 C"
provide critical information about the weather to
come.

Course on Crop-Weather Relationships


Module 6: Weather Forecasting
Virtual Academy for the Semi Arid Tropics

Modules Lessons

Lesson 2: About weather forecasting

How weather is predicted?

• Weather forecasters collect data on atmospheric


conditions, including temperature, humidity,
pressure, wind speed, and its direction etc.

• High-speed computers, meteorological satellites,


and weather radars are tools used to collect the
weather data.

• Such data are fed into the sophisticated computers


to interpret the weather conditions.

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Module 6: Weather Forecasting
Virtual Academy for the Semi Arid Tropics

Modules Lessons

Lesson 2: About weather forecasting

How weather is predicted?

• Weather forecasting is a very important activity


of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).
• IMD provides very comprehensive forecasting
services for different users.
• IMD has forecasting offices at its 6 Regional
Meteorological Centers and Meteorological
Centers at the State capitals.
• In addition it has two major forecasting centers
at New Delhi and Pune.

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Module 6: Weather Forecasting
Virtual Academy for the Semi Arid Tropics

Modules Lessons

Lesson 2: About weather forecasting

How weather is predicted?

• Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)


maintains a countrywide network of observational
stations from where weather reports are received
at Pune through the Regional Telecommunication
Hub based at New Delhi.

• With the help of these reports and other


observations from the globe, the Pune office
issues the All India Daily Weather Bulletin and
Weather Forecasts for the entire country.

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Modules Lessons

Lesson 2: About weather forecasting

How reliable is this weather forecasting?

• Atmospheric conditions change rapidly.

• Hence, even with sophisticated computer


models, satellite images, and monitoring
stations across most of the planet, forecasts
can be not exact.

• That is, sometimes the weather is more


predictable than at other times.

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Module 6: Weather Forecasting
Virtual Academy for the Semi Arid Tropics

Modules Lessons

This concludes Lesson 2- About weather


forecasting - in this Module.

Next Lesson is about types of weather


forecasting.

Click “Lessons” button to select Lesson 3

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