Thursday, November 26, 2015

STH Stormwatch (26Nov2015) - Another low expected in the Bay of Bengal

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Low expected to form in the next 24hrs and most probably Tamil Nadu will get another bashing. Praful Rao, Kalimpong, Dist Darjeeling ...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Chasing landslides in the Darjeeling Himalayas (1) - 22Nov2015

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STH has over the years endeavored to maintain a historical record of the landslide activity in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya in this blog ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

International Mountain Day (11Dec2015)

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For more on the above see here . As a part of the InMI we in Darjeeling will be observing International Mountain Day. Praful Rao, Kal...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

STH stormwatch (17Nov2015) : Update on the low position

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As per IMD the well marked Low Pressure Area now lies off the Andhra Pradesh and North Tamil Nadu coast (see above). Had it moved inland...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

STH stormwatch (14Nov2015) : 2 storms in the North Indian Ocean

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Source Praful Rao, Kalimpong, Dist Darjeeling
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Impact of humans on landslides : 14th Mile landslides (Kalimpong) in 2002 and now (2015).

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The 14th Mile landslides (top) or sinking zone is one of the oldest in Kalimpong and has been featured in this blog earlier Placed abo...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

STH stormwatch : Low Pressure forms in the Bay of Bengal - 07Nov2015

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A Low Pressure Area has formed in the Bay of Bengal and as per IMD , it is likely to intensify into a well marked low pressure and then b...
Friday, November 6, 2015

A tale of Two Cyclones : Cyclone 'Chapala' followed by Cyclone 'Megh' in the Arabian sea

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Cyclones in the Arabian Sea are comparatively less frequent than those in the Bay of Bengal, and it is rare to see two cyclones in ...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Rainfall data Darjeeling and Sikkim Oct2015 and IMD End of Season Report

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  The SW Monsoons of 2015 have withdrawn from the country as a whole. October 2015 again was a month of deficient rainfall for ...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Good news for Darjeeling -Sikkim Himalaya : Landslide Prediction Study by Ulster University in early 2016.

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Ulster University (UK) has secured funding for a new study focusing on landslide prediction in the Indian Himalayas, which will use n...