A scientist monitors the current climatic conditions at the main observation centre at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in New Delhi, India, June 3, 2016. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee
NEW DELHI: India's forecasting of the monsoon – the crop-nourishing seasonal rains that are the lifeblood for farmers in the country of 1.3 billion people – is getting a high-tech makeover.
Jettisoning a statistical method introduced under British colonial rule in the 1920s, India's meteorology office is spending US$60mil (RM243.72mil) on a new supercomputer to improve the accuracy of one of the world's most vital weather forecasts in time for next year's rains.
