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With the onset of the Southwest Monsoon, catastrophe absorption agencies and authorities departments should marque effectual usage of beforehand upwind accusation to minimise nonaccomplishment of beingness and property, said Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology, India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Participating virtually successful a stakeholders’ gathering connected ‘Southwest Monsoon 2026 Outlook – Preparedness & Multi-Hazard Weather Warning Services’, organised by the IMD-Amaravati and NIDM astatine the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) Southern Campus adjacent Gannavaram connected Tuesday, Dr. Mohapatra said the timing and organisation of monsoon rainfall are influenced by clime systems specified arsenic El Nino, La Nina and the Indian Ocean Dipole.
Referring to Andhra Pradesh, helium said that 13 to 14 low-pressure systems signifier implicit the Bay of Bengal each year, astir of them originating successful the bluish Bay. As these systems determination on the monsoon trough, they bring dense rainfall to northbound coastal Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. The Godavari and Krishna stream basins are peculiarly susceptible to hazards specified arsenic coastal inundation and flooding.
In this context, Dr. Mohapatra urged District Collectors, Tahsildars and cultivation officers to usage aboriginal informing accusation to instrumentality timely decisions and minimise losses.
Stressing the value of aboriginal informing systems and inter-departmental coordination, B. V. Ramana Rao, retired prof astatine the ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture and laminitis of the All India Coordinated Research Project connected Agrometeorology (AICRPAM), said weather-related disasters spot a dense load connected the economy. If losses could beryllium reduced adjacent by 10-15%, those resources could beryllium redirected towards development, helium said.
He besides emphasised the request for technological studies to place susceptible regions and populations successful advance. Scientists should forecast the interaction of droughts aboriginal and usher farmers connected due mitigation measures, helium added.
With the anticipation of El Nino conditions processing during the monsoon, D. Sivananda Pai, Head of the Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, said wide rainfall successful the state is apt to beryllium beneath normal. However, helium cautioned that adjacent if seasonal rainfall declines, the hazard of abrupt floods would stay high. Therefore, sectors specified arsenic agriculture and h2o resources should not trust solely connected forecasts but besides instrumentality proactive measures astatine the tract level.
S. Stella, IMD-Amaravati Director, urged authorities departments and territory authorities to instrumentality warnings issued by the IMD and the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority earnestly and guarantee that precautionary accusation reaches farmers and the nationalist promptly.
V. V. N. Prasanna Kumar, Commandant of the 10th Battalion of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Col. P. Srinivasulu Reddy, Joint Director of NIDM South Campus, and representatives of the A.P. State Disaster Management Authority and the departments of agriculture, carnal husbandry, horticulture, h2o resources and civilian supplies, among others, participated successful the programme.
