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Lesson 2: About weather forecasting
After completing this Lesson, you have learnedto 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 weatherforecasting is carried out by IMD?
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Lesson 2: About weather forecasting
What is weather forecasting?
•Weather forecasting is a prediction of what theweather will be like in an hour, tomorrow, next weekor during a season.
• Weather forecasts, such as:
"Look for cloudy skies with afternoonthunderstorms and a high of 380 C"
provide critical information about the weather tocome.
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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 computersto interpret the weather conditions.
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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 forecastingservices for different users.
• IMD has forecasting offices at its 6 RegionalMeteorological 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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Lesson 2: About weather forecasting
How weather is predicted?
• Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)
maintains a countrywide network of observationalstations from where weather reports are receivedat Pune through the Regional TelecommunicationHub based at New Delhi.
• With the help of these reports and otherobservations from the globe, the Pune officeissues the All India Daily Weather Bulletin andWeather Forecasts for the entire country.
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Lesson 2: About weather forecasting
How reliable is this weather forecasting?
• Atmospheric conditions change rapidly.
• Hence, even with sophisticated computermodels, satellite images, and monitoringstations across most of the planet, forecastscan be not exact.
• That is, sometimes the weather is morepredictable than at other times.
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This concludes Lesson 2- About weatherforecasting - in this Module.
Next Lesson is about types of weatherforecasting.
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