The Mausam mobile app will provide weather forecasts for the next seven days for around 450 cities. (File)
New Delhi:
Earth Sciences Minister Harsh Vardhan has launched a mobile app that will provide city weather forecasts, live broadcasts and other warnings.
The mobile application, “Mausam“, was jointly designed and developed by the International Crops Research Institute of the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).
Mr Vardhan said huge financial investments were needed, at least double the current budget, to increase observing networks, replace old ships and procure new IT resources.
The app is available on both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. The app will offer different services.
It will provide current weather information, including temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, for 200 cities. The information will be updated eight times a day.
It will also issue immediate broadcasts, warnings every three hours, for local weather phenomena and their intensity for about 800 stations and districts. In the event of severe weather, its impact will also be included in the warning.
The app will provide the weather forecast for the next seven days for around 450 cities in India. Weather information from the last 24 hours will also be available on the app.
It also has a system that will issue color coded alerts (red, yellow, orange) for all districts twice a day for up to five days to warn people of dangerous weather.
