The conditions that lead to landslides, including soil texture, soil moisture and slope are known, and it is important to put all this knowledge into an operational system, he said.
The Met department blamed the malfunctioning of sensors kept at the Automated Weather Station for the gaffe.
As Kerala battles severe heat, the meteorological department has issued a maximum temperature warning for 12 districts for the upcoming five days.
Heatwave conditions are expected over northwest India during the next five days, with Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi predicted to bear the maximum impact, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.
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The finance ministry on Thursday raised concerns over the possible impact of El Nio conditions on India this year, saying if recent forecasts came true, the country could see lower agricultural output and higher inflation. "Some meteorological agencies predict the return of El Nio conditions in India this year. "If these predictions are accurate, then monsoon rains could be deficient, leading to lower agricultural output and higher prices," the ministry said in its monthly economic review.
This is the first cyclone in the Bay of Bengal this pre-monsoon season.
The quake struck near Kumamoto city on the island of Kyushu at a depth of 11 kilometres, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, adding that there was no tsunami risk.
Delhi's 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) stood at 248 on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the US Geological Survey issued a preliminary report placing saying the quake measured 6.8.
Ten to 20 days of heatwave are expected against the normal of four to eight days in the entire April-June period.
Landslides and flash floods triggered by incessant rain in Himachal Pradesh have paralysed normal life.
Manual horizontal digging will start soon in addition to the ongoing top-down drilling to rescue the 41 trapped workers in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, the NDMA said on Monday.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook wide areas of eastern and north-eastern Japan on Sunday, shaking the ground in Tokyo, agencies have said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. No tsunami warning has been issued yet.
A major earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter Scale struck off the coast of eastern Japan on Monday, according to media reports.The earthquake caused no apparent damage but the Japan Meteorological Agency declared a tsunami alert in Miyagi Prefecture.The quake struck near the east coast of Honshu, said authorities.Japan is struggling to cope with the aftermath of an earthquake and a tsunami that struck on March 11, leaving 18,000 people dead and thousands missing.
Heatwave conditions have been prevailing in Odisha since April 15 and the Gangetic West Bengal since April 17, according to the MeT department.
The earthquake occurred at 5:18 pm Japan time (1:50 pm IST), off the coast of northeastern Japan. The same area was hit by a magnitude-9 quake and tsunami on March 11 last year.
The volcano is located about 50 kilometres from the Sendai nuclear plant that began operations last year after it was shut down along with other nuclear plants in Japan following the 2011 earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The Met office has issued a "red" warning for Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and west Rajasthan, stressing the need for "extreme care for vulnerable people".
A tsunami warning has been issued in north-eastern Japan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the east coast of Honshu. The Japan meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter.
Tourist centres have been closed in many districts, including Kottayam and Thiruvananthapuram, and a night travel ban has been imposed in the hilly areas of Idukki district.
Lakhs of voters will have to bear the searing heat when they step out to exercise their franchise in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Friday.
A strong aftershock of magnitude 5.9 on Saturday jolted Japan as its workers scrambled hard to stabilise radiation-leaking Fukushima nuclear plant, where the level of highly toxic water in a reactor's tunnel had risen.
Japan may be wondering today as to what more could possibly hit them? Inside a week, the country has witnessed a deadly quake, an even deadlier tsunami that swept away towns after towns and then a volcanic eruption.
Five people died in rain-related incidents in Delhi Friday as Monsoon arrived with a fury early in the morning, lashing the city with its highest rainfall in a single day of June in 88 years which brought it to a standstill with streets flooded, traffic in chaos and some commuters stranded on roads.
Intense heat swept through east India and parts of the southern peninsular region on Thursday, testing power grids and prompting the Kerala government to order closure of educational institutions till May 6.
Japan's Meteorological Agency has called off the tsunami alert that it had issued in the wake of the massive earthquake.
Japan's meteorological agency has reported that the quake struck at local time of 2.46 pm, some 80 miles off the country's east coast and at a depth of around eight kilometers
The quake, which hit west of Kyushu Island at 0723 IST was centred at an 'extremely shallow' depth of 9 km below the ocean floor, measured 7 on the Richter scale.
Temperatures remained above 45 degrees Celsius in large parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh, affecting daily life as many chose to remain indoors in the afternoon.
Japan's meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning following a powerful quake off western Indonesia. The quake, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, struck Indonesia's Sumatra island on Tuesday afternoon, triggering panic in the area. The undersea quake struck at 3:08 pm local time, some 312 kilometres west-southwest of the North Sumatra capital Medan, according to the US Geological Survey.
This would be the second cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea this year.
The health minister said the Centre has taken timely measures ahead of the summer season to address heatwave-related illnesses.
While there was a brief respite from the incessant downpour on Tuesday, collaborative efforts from the defence, national, and state disaster response forces took the lead in executing rescue and relief operations.
The city's average air quality index (AQI) stood at 220 at 12 noon, improving from 263 at 4 pm on Monday.
Wind speed at the time is expected to be in the range of 125-135 kmph gusting up to 150 kmph.
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has hit off the coast of Japan, with its epicentre located some 150 kilometers from the city of Namie in Fukushima prefecture triggering a tsunami alert, RT News reports.
Several global models are predicting El Nio to appear around the second half of the year, which are the crucial rain-bearing months.
A depression over the southeast Arabian Sea, south of Porbandar in Gujarat, is likely to move northwestward and intensify into a cyclonic storm, the India Meteorological Department said on Tuesday.
The earthquake damaged houses, roads, as well as other infrastructures, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted eyewitnesses from the area as saying.
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