All of us must have read Land and Sea breeze as a school student as part of our geography lessons. The Indian Summer Monsoon is a large scale Land,Ocean and Atmosphere system and possibly the largest weather phenomenon. In a way it pretty much resembles how Land and Sea Breeze works on a local scale. […]
Continue Reading“The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn” Alvin Toffler Every disaster provides new learnings allowing not only disaster managers but also to public. A disaster resilient society would identify the mistakes during such disasters, take on board the learnings, put in […]
Continue ReadingMemory something that you remember from the past Over the past couple of days the chatter among a lot of media channels has been whether are we going to see a repeat of 2015. Often human mind tends to store memories, both good and bad, and tends to associate events with such memories. The 2015 […]
Continue ReadingIMD yesterday announced the withdrawal of Southwest Monsoon from the entire country 4 days delayed compared to the normal withdrawal date of October 15th. Over the past decade if one were to see the withdrawal dates 6 out of 10 years the withdrawal has been completed only after 20th October ironically 2019 the year that […]
Continue ReadingRelay a : a supply (as of horses) arranged beforehand for successive reliefb : a number of persons who relieve others in some work The traditional date for Southwest Monsoon to complete its withdrawal over the Indian Sub-Continent is 15th of October while the traditional onset date for Northeast Monsoon is 18th of October with […]
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