Skymet To Built 100 Automatic Weather Monitoring Bases In Mumbai To Trace Flood and Heavy Rains

People of Mumbai are having their eyes on the weather forecasts for the next few days, as the previous flooding and downpour has thrown the daily life off balance for the people in the city of Mumbai. An Indian agricultural risk monitor and weather monitor corporation – known as Skymet Weather – has had 100 automatic weather monitoring bases across the city of Mumbai. The system will give a hyper-local update for different parts of the city, which is an advantage because there are moments that it may rain in one side of the city, and at the same time, a clear sky in another one. 

Skymet has also established an inundation and flood monitoring dashboard so that the people can be up to date with the weather information.

The dashboard will constantly be updated. There is also an application for your smartphones, which supports both iOS and Android operating systems handsets and is available in Marathi, Gujarati, and English.

The app provides users with real-time information upon thunderstorm and lightning for all cities across India, along with wind profiles, stats and rainfall prediction, and more, all of which is given from high-res satellite imagery from Meteosat and Insat.

Jatin Singh – Founder and Managing Director of Skymet Weather – stated that as Skymet being the first private weather forecast enterprise in India, they believed that even with current technologies, the loss of property and technologies had been meaningless on the 26th of July, 2005 when it had rained for approximately 900mm for a couple of hours in Mumbai. Since then, Skymet had been working to solve this problem during the last decades and the ideal lands in order to give the Mumbaikars a ten-day window on those flooding and heavy rain days in the city.