Jammu gets X-band doppler weather radar

Jammu, September 4

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An X-band doppler weather radar has been installed here to provide improved weather services to people of J&K, the India Meteorological Department said on Saturday.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh will dedicate the radar along with an indigenous GPS based pilot-sonde to public at the meteorological office in Jammu on Sunday, it said in a statement.

The state-of-the-art indigenous GPS based pilot-sonde helps to gather data in all weather conditions with minimum human intervention and has facilities of auto detection of balloon launch and balloon burst. “The new radar will help in providing a nowcast (very short range forecast up to three hours) for all types of severe weather events affecting the region, especially thunderstorm, lightning, squall and heavy rain,” the statement said. — PTI