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Cyclone Warning Centre in Kerala

August 23 , 2018 2157 days 885 0
  • Union Ministry of Earth Sciences has announced to set up Cyclone Warning Centre in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram.
  • It also proposed to set up C-band Doppler weather radar at Mangalore, Karnataka.
  • This comes in view of recent heavy rainfall and concerns over extreme weather activities in future.
  • At present, IMD has six cyclone warning centers,
    • 4 along the east coast at Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, and Kolkata.
    • 2 along west coast at Ahmedabad and Mumbai.

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