IMD Adds 7 New Weather Services To UMANG App

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has onboarded its seven services to the UMANG application.

The following seven services on the IMD website www.mausam.imd.gov.in have been added in UMANG app.

Current weather forecast
Current temperature, humidity, wind speed, direction for 150 cities are updated 8 times a day. Information on sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset are also available on the app.

Nowcast
Three-hourly warnings of localised weather phenomena and their intensity are issued for about 800 stations.

City weather forecast
Past 24 hours and 7-day weather conditions forecast of 450 cities in India are available.

Rainfall forecast
All-India district rainfall information daily, weekly, monthly and cumulative series are available.

Tourism forecast
Past 24 hours and a 7-day forecast of weather conditions of 100 tourist cities.

Warnings
Alerts are issued to warn citizens of approaching dangerous weather in Red, Orange and yellow to indicate alert levels. Red is the most severe category.

Cyclone warnings and alerts
Cyclone warnings and alerts are provided to track cyclonic storms along with likely time and point of crossing of the coast.

The Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance, UMANG is a unified, multi-channel, multi-platform, multi-lingual and multi-service mobile app.

The UMANG app developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) with an objective to make the government accessible on the mobile phone of the citizens was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2017.

Currently, about 660 services from 127 departments and 25 states including utility payments are functional on the application.