India Meteorological Department will be implementing an end-to-end prediction system for predicting thunderstorms/lightning by April 2019...Yes...Initiative has been taken as last year during the pre monsoon season a series of thunderstorm/dust storm affected the northern states and claimed about 200 lives.
Union Minister of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences and Environment and Forests and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan has said that IITM Pune has already installed 48 lightning sensors around the country which can locate the thunderstorm/lightning activities on real time.
IITM Pune also developed a Mobile App called “DAMINI” to give alerts on impending lightning activity over the area. The DAMINI App is available from Google Stores.
IMD is strengthening the observational network and by end of this year, 10 new X-band weather radars will be installed over NW Himalayas (J &K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand).
11 more C-band radars will be installed by IMD by 2020 over the plains of India including one over Andaman Nicobar Islands and one over Lakshadweep Islands.
All these observatories are expected to be established by end of 2020.
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