India Meteorological Department (IMD)

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), also known as the Met station, is the institution of the Earth Science Bureau of the Indian government. It is the entity responsible for weather observation, weather forecasting and seismology.

The IMD headquartered in New Delhi has hundreds of observatory stations in India and Antarctica. The IMD has six regional weather centers, each led by the deputy director.

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Kerala state in India received some of the highest precipitation in India during the monsoon season. However, during the year 2018, the state experienced the highest monsoon rainfall for decades. According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), precipitation is 2346.3 mm rather than an average of 1649.55 mm. Unprecedented rainfall is caused by local depression. The southwest monsoon system is fully integrated with the two low-pressure systems formed in Bengal Bay and Orissa. A region of low atmospheric pressure pulls a moist southwest monsoon and speeds up, then it crashes into the western Ghats mountain range and fly to the sky, forming rain clouds

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), also known as the Met station, is the institution of the Earth Science Bureau of the Indian government. It is the entity responsible for weather observation, weather forecasting and seismology. IMD is headquartered in Delhi and has hundreds of observatory stations in India and Antarctica. Regional offices are located in Mumbai, Kolkata, Nagpur and Pune. The IMD is also one of the six regional specialty weather centers of the World Meteorological Organization. It is responsible for predicting, naming, and distributing tropical cyclone warnings in the North Indian Ocean, including the Strait of Malacca, the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.