Thread: Weather predictions - what a joke!

We are all aware that the country is possibly facing severe drought this year.

Early in May, the weather oracles decided that we are going to have a normal monsoon and the soothsayers further predicted that there will 93% rainfall across the country.

Come June-end, all went wrong - then all sorts of excuses came up: the unexpected cyclonic activity in Bay of Bengal in May, El Nino, etc.

Yesterday, the newspapers in Pune announced that the dams in the Bhima basin are only 58% full. The Met office said that further rains are unlikely for the time being. The basic pattern in and around Pune is that we get most of our rains from 15-June to 15-Aug. By the time of the Ganesha festival, the rains are nearly gone with a few sporadic bursts now and then.

So a water cut of 30% was announced - till the start of the next monsoon. Met dept said further rains are unlikely unless depression develops in nearby areas.

Today, it is raining cats and dogs.

Climate prediction is still in brotherly terms with astrology predications. Nothing is certain.

OK. I am not expecting our astrologers to predict that rain is expected at 4:15 pm (like they do in Europe, US) but at least with all the computers, the satellites, the advanced software, etc., they should be able to predict something? And that with some reasonable accuracy?