By D N Singh
Nature has stood as an obstinate hindrance for the human wisdom as regards the meteorological predictions this year.
To put it a bit more straight, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has suffered a stigma of trust deficit this summer.
Looking back at what forecasts made by IMD in last one month when the entire nation remained virtually roasted under an intense heat wave, thrice within that period the Met was heard parroting the same lines ‘rains to come in three days from now’ and earlier in the month the media kept quoting that in June there will be heavy rains, while some media houses were found paraphrasing the Met versions, ‘torrential rain in June’.
No respite so far and 15 days hence, the heat and humidity has grown to be disabling except the evenings with a breezes here and there.
On Monday, i.e today, there is again a news quoting the IMD read, in another three days ‘Odisha will experience rain’, ‘monsoon to touch Odisha in three-four days’.
The days pass and evenings as well but, there is no end to the Met’s cyclic three days’ forecast.
The people of Odisha are in the perpetual crisis of heat wave conditions while, in contrast, known for its uncanny wisdom to inject respite through rain predictions, the IMD has so far discredited itself to become a puerile foreteller
