ABOUT US

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The Regional Meteorological Centre, Delhi is one of the six Regional Centres of India Meteorological Department. This Centre was started in April 1945. It caters to the meteorological requirements of Delhi along with North Western India through following seven Meteorological Centres:

Region	Meteorological Centre
Ladakh	Meteorological Centre, Leh
Jammu & Kashmir	Meteorological Centre, Srinagar
Himachal Pradesh	Meteorological Centre, Shimla
Uttarakhand	Meteorological Centre, Dehradun
Haryana & Punjab	Meteorological Centre, Chandigarh
Uttar Pradesh	Meteorological Centre, Lucknow
Rajasthan	Meteorological Centre, Jaipur

Our Functions:

Weather forecasting services to general public, Government agencies and other users for research & planning purposes.

Aviation forecast

Flood forecasting

Agromet Advisory Services

Rainfall monitoring on daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal and annual basis.

Implementation of District-wise Rainfall Monitoring Scheme (DRMS) of all states within the region and providing necessary inputs to user agencies.

Mandate:

To take meteorological observations and to provide current and forecast meteorological information for optimum operation of weather-sensitive activities like agriculture, irrigation, shipping, aviation, offshore oil explorations, etc.

To warn against severe weather phenomena like tropical cyclones, norwesters, duststorms, heavy rains and snow, cold and heat waves, etc., which cause destruction of life and property.

To provide meteorological statistics required for agriculture, water resource management, industries, oil exploration and other nation building activities.

To conduct and promote research in meteorology and allied disciplines