
The Indian Met Department (IMD) might be worried about a delayed monsoon but Jatin Singh of Skymet, India’s biggest private met agency, says the rains will hit Kerala by the end of the month instead of a week later as IMD suggests. He says the IMD gets it wrong because of its use of objective criteria that are applied differently in different years. As for the level of rainfall awaiting this parched land, Singh agrees with the IMD: it will be in the above-normal range due to La Nina setting in. Fingers firmly crossed even though, last year, Skymet got its 100 per cent rainfall prediction wrong!
What goes around, come around. Even as Indian tyre...
In this article:
other articles from the issue
Other magazine section
-
National
When Blind Hate Took An Eye For An Eye
-
National
Suffering By Default
-
National
Sedition: A Minatory Frown
-
National
‘Delhi Police Is 200 Per Cent Impartial’
-
National
‘Police Are Now Dictated By Political Bosses’
-
National
The Case Diary