World Meteorological Day “Closing the Early Warning Gap Together”

While humanity upholds equal moral imperative by ensuring that any farmer in any part of India; any fisherman in any part of India; alongwith any Indian City dweller have the same chance to survive, and thrive in a warming world. Closing the early warning gap is not a technical goal – which has envisionaged the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) to encompass a collective action to ensure that every individual, everywhere, has access to life-saving early warning systems.

On 23^rd. of March the world commemorates the Meteorological Day; Regional Meteorological Centre, Alipore have striven in recognising that our fates are intertwined — that a disaster averted in one corner of the globe benefits us all.

Today, on 24^th. March, 2025 at the Alipore Observatory Centre, the celebrations began under the open blue sky with an introductory speech by Dr. Somenath Dutta – Head & Scientist who after garlanding the August Statue of Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore, demonstrated the significance of Kaviguru as the “face of the educated people”. Doctor Habibur Rahaman Biswas elaborated the role of Regional Meteorological Centre over the decades, and the significant contribution of this centre in assimilating & analysing data’s helping in curbing the menace posed by nature. Several students from across different scholastics levels, along with the members of the media house were thrilled to know that the “impact of a cyclone is equivalent to 200 nitrogen bombs exploding at a time”.

Dr. Somenath Dutta had been elaborate while apprising about the “Early Warning For All – the roadmap of World Meteorological Organisation in partnership with UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)”. The august audience were overwhelmed to the spine chilling experience of the Antarctica – as narrated by Dr. Punarbasu Chaudhuri, Head of Department, Calcutta University & Proud Member of the 2020 Indian Antarctica Expedition. He (Dr. Chaudhuri) most humbly informed the audience that he was present at Esperanza Military Base in Antarctica on 06^th. February, 2020 – the day which is still remembered as a “T-Shirt Weather Day” since the mercury had shot upto 18.3⁰C which is 65⁰ Farhenheit.

He reiterated the many-fold impact of climatic changes in the Polar Meteorology. It is not only global warming which is causing the mammoth ice-glaciers to melt; but some form of micro-organisms namely ‘Algae’ are destructing the ice-fields on which they grow.

Team Maverick.