Hi-tech weather forecasts for 60K villages

BANGALORE: While the state continues to face the wrath of the rain gods and the brewing of another flood situation, supercomputers are being deployed to monitor weather forecasts of upto 60,000 villages across India and over 5,700 villages in the state.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has signed an MoU with the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) to facilitate the use of their Param supercomputers to provide more effective monitoring of climatic conditions. "This is for joint research and development between the two agencies but the programme is designed and run by CDAC," Rajat Moona, director of CDAC said. He told Express that the monitoring would not only involve flood control or rains, but climate modelling and weather modelling forecasting. "The system provides information about the weather three days in advance at sixhour intervals," he said.