Uttarakhand like deluge can happen elsewhere

The Times of India , Sunday, September 22, 2013
Correspondent : Rohith B R
BANGALORE: The city has this year received heavy rain in a non-monsoon period, a first in 25 years. Weather experts predict that the whole of India will experience what Bangalore has heavy to very heavy rain during non-monsoon months.

The change in rain pattern is here to stay. Says M R Ramesh Kumar, chief scientist at the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa: "The duration of the south-west monsoon has extended this year compared to the past few decades. The influence of forest degradation and other environmental effects on the rain pattern cannot be ruled out in the coming years.''

The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, has concluded that instances of heavy rain (more than 100 mm a day) and very heavy rain (over 150 mm a day) are increasing, while those of low and moderate rain (below 100 mm a day) are on the decline.

R Krishnan, executive director of the Centre for Climate Change Research at the Pune institute, informed STOI: "There are multiple factors affecting such changes in the rain pattern. There are external factors such as ocean dynamics and depression, in addition to man-made changes, which need to be analyzed properly. Climate change may not be the only reason."

 
SOURCE : http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-22/india/42291760_1_heavy-rain-rain-pattern-moderate-rain
 


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