{"id":28188,"date":"2018-10-24T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28188"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:44:09","slug":"india-to-give-flash-flood-warning-to-asian-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-give-flash-flood-warning-to-asian-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"India to give flash-flood warning to Asian nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-to-give-flash-flood-warning-to-asian-nations\/article24535525.ece\">India to give flash-flood warning to Asian nations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The world metrological organistaion (WMO) designated India as a nodal centre for preparing flash-flood forecasts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. It implies that India will have to develop a customized model that can issue advance warning of floods in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>3. IMD would be working\u00a0\u00a0 to customize a weather model, developed by the United States and donated to the WMO, to warn of flash floods atleast six hours in advance.<\/p>\n<p>4. The test version for the same was carried out by the IMD recently.<\/p>\n<p><u>5. Flash flood guidance system:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use of satellite mapping and ground based observations.<\/li>\n<li>Aims to provide forecasts six hours in advance.<\/li>\n<li>It provides forecasts by computing the likelihood of rainfall and the soil moisture levels to warn of possible floods.<\/li>\n<li>According to WMO, flash floods account for 85% of flooding incidents across the world, causing some 5,000 deaths each year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6. Like India, several Southeast Asian countries also depend on the monsoon and are prone to its vagaries.<\/p>\n<p>7. Pakistan had refused to participate in the Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>8. India currently has a warning system for Tsunami that also doubles up a warning system for several Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p>9. The Central Water Commission, monitors India\u2019s dams, warns of rising water level in the reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>10. The CWC recently tied up with Google to develop a software application to visualize rising water levels during the heavy rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India to give flash-flood warning to Asian nations News: The world metrological organistaion (WMO) designated India as a nodal centre for preparing flash-flood forecasts. Important facts: 2. It implies that India will have to develop a customized model that can issue advance warning of floods in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand. 3. IMD would&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-give-flash-flood-warning-to-asian-nations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India to give flash-flood warning to Asian nations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904695},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}