The India Meteorological Department has launched a public outreach initiative through a website where citizens will be able to record realized weather and can upload their local weather conditions.
With
this, people will be able to directly help the department record the real-time
data. The public participation was being considered by the weather department
for the past three months before rolling out the website.
Earlier
on January 1, 2021, Mumbai’s Regional Meteorological Centre had sought help
from the resident volunteers for installing 50 new rain gauges on their roofs.
The inclusion of public participation will also help in increasing the
efficiency, network, verification, and accuracy of the forecasts.
Significance:
• The system has been
implemented by IMD for improving the country’s network of observatories and for
increasing its public connection.
• The information can
further be utilized for improving the department’s forecast, especially in the
short-range.
• The department does not
have observatories everywhere and this system can vastly improve the network in
last-mile coverage.
• There will also be
improvements in increasing user-friendliness, archiving of information, and
better visualization.
• The public involvement
will make them stakeholders in weather sciences and will also improve the
quality of its own forecasts.
How the
system will work?
• On the website, users will
be required to add the districts and states where the weather event is taking
place.
• They will need to
categorize the nature of the occurrence accordingly.
• Citizens will also be able
to provide information about damage- such as uprooting of telephone lines and
trees as well as damage done to the crops or the death of the livestock.
Chances of
wrong information by the public:
Director-General
of IMD, M Mohapatra, stated that it is not necessary that users will
intentionally provide wrong information, sometimes they might mistake rain for
thunderstorms or click the wrong button.
The
department plans on verifying the data inputs from the citizens against its own
recordings before displaying the details onto the domain.
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