The Indian Meteorological Department was founded by the British in 1875 at Shimla.
Its head office is at Pune and its Regional offices are at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Nagpur and Delhi.
Maps are prepared every day which indicate the daily predictions about the weather.
Such maps are prepared and published twice in every 24 hours.
In this institute, research goes on continuously on various aspects like instruments for climatic readings, predictions made about climate using radar, predictions about climate related to seismology, predictions regarding rainfall by satellites, air pollution etc.
The Indian Meteorological Department provides information regarding weather and climatic conditions to other departments like aviation, shipping, agriculture, irrigation, marine oil exploration and production etc.
Predictions regarding calamities like dust storms, sand storms, heavy rainfall, hot and cold waves, tsunami, etc. are communicated to various departments, all types of mass communication media and all citizens.
India has launched several satellites equipped with high class technology.
Observatories at several locations are doing excellent work in the analysis of the information received from these satellites.
