Centre to launch a forecast system for predicting thunderstorms and lightning by April

Prediction tools for this purpose are being developed by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and India Meteorological Department (IMD), New Delhi in the backdrop of the last year’s pre-monsoon incidents of thunderstorms and very high wind speed-led dust storms that claimed about 200 lives in different north Indian states

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