Kerala launches real-time weather app for early warnings

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Sudden weather changes are hardly ever good. One moment, it’s sunny outside, and the next it looks like it will rain, heavily. Thankfully, there is a solution — an advanced weather app that offers real-time insights on such changes.

The new mobile app, to be launched by the Institute for Climate Change Studies (ICCS) under the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) this year, can issue early warnings for extreme rainfall and related events, including landslides, thereby allowing, among other things, improved disaster preparedness.