Finding the data provided by Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) inadequate for studying the national capital’s “micro-climate”, Delhi University has set up its own weather station for more accurate and detailed weather updates.
The varsity has also claimed that the weather station, which will record temperature, humidity, wind speed, rainfall and pressure, just like any other monitoring station, is the first-of-its-kind to be established by any educational institution in India. “IMD is the only agency furnishing public weather data and there are only two stations – Palam and Safdarjung – from which it draws information for Delhi. Hence, for many areas, the data is not Real-Time but approximately so,” said Dr RB Singh, HOD, DU’s Geography department.