India, Feb. 4 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The key improvement achieved in the weather forecasting accuracy is the overall increase of average skill of the predictions by 30-40% during the last 10 years for all types of severe weather events over the Indian region at lead time of 1-day to 5-day forecasts. For the State of Karnataka, if we consider, e.g., heavy rainfall events, which are major severe weather events impacting the State, the skill of the latest 5-year warning of heavy rainfall, including 2025, in terms of probability of detection (POD), is given below by Meteorological Sub-division-wise.
For the North Interior Karnataka, it shows it has improved from 52% in 2021 to 88% in 2025 at 1- day lead period, from ...