Madurai: At the time of the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) faced a flash because of his failure to estimate heavy rain which attacked Chennai on Thursday, Mad MP Venkatsan on Saturday sharing the letter he received from the Ministers of the Minister of Science and Technology Jitendra Singh two weeks stated that The system exists for weather forecasting in Tamil Nadu without compromise.
This is responding to a letter sent by MP in November to repair the damaged Doppler weather radar 15 near the Port of Chennai and to install a new radar.
MP has stated that accurate forecasting is very important because there are drastic changes in climate conditions, including rain, and the public must be warned on preparedness in time.
“Radar is not a single input for weather forecasting as data from the observatory, automatic weather stations and satellites also provide important inputs to super computers to produce weather forecast using numerical weather prediction models.
Therefore the quality of the weather forecasting over Tamil Nadu is not compromised,” said Minister of Internalfather answer.
Jitendra Singh, who is also the Minister of State for the Department of Space and Atomic Energy, states that IMDs under the Ministry of Earth Sciences take advantage of radar capabilities in Sriharikota, about 100 km from Chennai, and have supervision.
Range of 500 km around it.
The minister stated that in addition, radar in Kara is operated for weather forecast for the Northeast season and tropical cyclones.
He stated that the new radar in Chennai was also being used and had provided valuable support to IMD during heavy rains in November.
Further testing activities were completed by Isro, he said.
ISRO also provides technical support in replacing damaged parts on the Radar Sand in Chennai, he added.
Shows in the above reply from the minister he received two weeks ago, Venkatessan on Saturday stated that this was contrary to the statement of officials from IMD Chennai that they did have the technology to estimate rain.
“Minister must consider this,” MP said.