The mobile app has been designed and developed jointly by ICRISAT’s Digital Agriculture & Youth (DAY) team, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and India Meteorological Department.
The app will provide information on current weather with temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction for around 200 cities.
The information on the app will be updated 8 times a day.
It will also provide the weather forecast for next 7 days and the information of the past 24 hours for around 450 cities in India
The now casting, three hourly warnings, local weather phenomena and the intensity for about 800 stations and districts will be provided.
The application provides colour coded alerts – red, yellow and orange – for the entire district, two times a day for 5 days to warn the people prior to extreme weather.