Remember one of the Apps I told you about in last part of this wonderful series on monsoon called Meghdoot?

All those who know little Sanskrit, or even Hindi, know that the word Meghdoot means the cloud messenger, i.e. the cloud works as a messenger. (More about the origin of that word and who coined it tomorrow).

So, this Meghdoot App is a joint effort of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Indian Council for Agriculture Research (ICAR) to bring high resolution weather forecast based agro-advisories to farmers in their own languages. There is useful information about rain prospects for farmers contextualized to the district and crop wise advisories twice a week. These advisories are originally issued by the Agro-Met Field Units (AMFU) but it is the Meghdoot App that actually allows farmers from across India to get information from these advisories, that too in a very user-friendly manner.

Not all, but several of the advisories are issued in regional languages. The main aim is to help farmers through the crop advisory. But this same App can also inform the farmers about the weather forecast and the observed weather.

The Mausam App and the Damini App are respectively useful for knowing impeding weather events and lightning situations and getting alerts about these phenomena.

As I mentioned above, find out tomorrow, who coined the term Meghdoot several years ago, in fact, centuries ago.

Image credit: https://journalsofindia.com/mausam-meghdoot-and-damini-apps-of-imd/

---- to be continued