Mobile App 'Mausam' launched for India Meteorological Department; features like current weather, city forecast provided

The City Forecast has information about the past 24 hours and a 7-day forecast of weather conditions across 450 cities in India.

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New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences on Monday (July 27, 2020) launched the mobile App 'Mausam' for India Meteorological Department which will have features like current weather, city forecast, and current temperature.

The application is available on Playstore and Appstore.

"This Mobile App is dedicated to the general public and designed to communicate the weather information and forecasts in a lucid manner without technical jargons," said the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences.

Users can access observed weather, forecasts, radar images and be proactively warned of impending weather events.

The Mausam mobile app has the following services:

Current Weather: Current temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction for 200 cities updated 8 times a day. Information on Sunrise and sunset along with moonrise and moonset are also given.

Nowcast: Three hourly warnings of localized weather phenomena and their intensity issued for about 800 stations, and districts of India by State Meteorological Centres of IMD. In case of severe weather, its impact also is included in the warning.

City Forecast: Past 24 hours and a 7-day forecast of weather conditions around 450 cities in India.

Warnings: Alerts issued twice a day for all districts for the next five days in colour code (Red, Orange and Yellow) to warn citizens of approaching dangerous weather. The colour code Red is the most severe category urging authorities to take action, Orange code prompts authorities and public to be alert and Yellow code prompts authorities and public to keep themselves updated.

Radar products: Latest Station wise radar products updated every 10 minutes.

This app has been designed and developed jointly by ICRISAT’s Digital Agriculture & Youth (DAY) team, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology