Collapse of weather forecast in India

Monday morning we experienced much colder climate than Sunday, we surprised for that and later we came to know that due to disturbance in the Sea, we might experience sudden showers and more cold than usual.

I am worried about paddy farmers since, the cut crop is still in the farms, but I felt that some care would be taken to prevent the paddy from rains. This same climate continued on Tuesday also, and Tuesday night showers said hi to us, and I still remember my grand mother words, when I about to plant a new plant at my village my grand mom suggested me to do that after a few days since it will rain in a week or two. As she predicted we experienced showers of course seasonal or unseasonal that doesn’t matter here.

After showers on Tuesday night, I expected that every thing moved from farms to safer places, but on Thursday morning I was shocked to see every thing right there, no one around to take care. Cut paddy is still there, even the farm is wet. Despite of showers, the wet in the soil will degrade the quality of paddy, so even after small showers (of course it showered lightly on Tuesday but heavy rain fall predicted) people must shift paddy to dry place.

Media, newspapers and older people know there is risk of rains in second and third weeks of December, but I wonder no one bothered to take care of their crop at fields, I don’t 2 days time is too short to transfer crop from fields to safer places or at least they can make arrangements such that crop is not wet due to rains. When conditions are completely in their hands people are not bothered, but they will demand government to buy their low quality crop (low quality due to rains) to save them. How come government can support them in each and every issue?

It will be foolish to say farmers are unaware of the forecast since, 90% of village homes are equipped with TV and Cable connection, eenadu news paper lands in most homes, radio is still on, at least the situation in the village I am referring is like this.

Fortunately we escaped from heavy rains but if we hit with heavy rains, who has to pay for the loss?

Similarly, thousands are killed in Chennai due to floods. Some areas are severely affected even though rains are moderate. Usually the forecast team predicts heavy rains or disturbance in sea before minimum of 4 days. So, the local authorities can make arrangements to shift people to safe shelter and can arrange for every thing they need before 24hours. But these government authorities move only after people die and thousands lost shelter. Government least bothered, they sleep since they can eat center money which came to support flood prone regions.

With previous 100 year statistics one can easily predict the chances of rains in a particular week with high precision, but such scientific implementation of statistics is missing, establishing independent authority to prevent mishaps due rains or other natural calamities and to guide farmers about their crops is necessary.

When will these rulers open their eyes?