Mumbai to get Doppler radar by May 31

The Doppler Weather Radar, which is much awaited since the July 26, 2005 deluge, will now be available to the city by May 31, a top official of the India Meteorology Department (IMD) here said.

"IMD Mumbai has procured an indigenous Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) from Bangalore based Bharat Electronics Ltd and we expect that installation will be completed by May 31, just
before the monsoon begins," Dr R V Sharma, deputy director
general of Meteorology told PTI today.
  
The DWR will help the department in 'nowcasting' (predicting weather for next two to three hours) as it has several features that can be estimated like rainfall intensity, cloud droplet size, wind profile, Sharma said.

Part of the consignment has already reached Colaba Met office yesterday and the remaining are expected shortly. 

"Since the site with connectivity facilities is available at Navy Nagar for installing DWR and the engineers from BEL are on their way, there should not be any delay in setting it up," Sharma said.