In an exclusive interview to DNA, Mazumdar said, "The availability of Doppler radars and precise satellite information has made our less than two days forecasting very accurate."
Even as AB Mazumdar, the 60-year-old India Meteorological Department (IMD) deputy director general meteorology (DDGM), weather forecasting, walks into the sunset on November 30, after a successful 34-year-old career as a weatherman, he has some good news to share.
Very short range weather forecasting (less than 2 days), also known as 'Now casting' is set to become more precise.
In an exclusive interview to DNA on Saturday, Mazumdar said, "The availability of Doppler radars and precise satellite information has made our less than two days forecasting very accurate."
However, the senior meteorologist said, "Precise prediction of the weather is always difficult because of multiple variables.
Advanced technology has merely made information gathering faster. However, we are flooded with lots of more information today." According to him, the users' expectations have increased.
Mazumdar has a bagful of anecdotes to narrate. Like the time in 1980, when a train was swept off a bridge into a north Bihar river killing hundreds of people. The accident had occurred following a thunder squall. According to Mazumdar, the IMD was slammed for not predicting the squall. Mazumdar's research proved that the squall was a normal weather feature in these parts.
Another challenge that he remembers was at the Kolkata airport during the 1981-84. "The solitary computer in IMD Delhi used to send data that we could share with the air traffic control. However, the computer crashed for ten days and we had to give our weather predictions based on old, established data," he said.
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