Mausam App

IN NEWS:

• Earth Sciences Minister Harsh Vardhan  launched a mobile application named Mausam.

About the App:

• The mobile application, Mausam, has been designed and developed jointly by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, and the India Meteorological Department (IMD)
• It will provide current weather information, including temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, for 200 cities. The information will be updated eight times a day.
• It will also issue nowcasts, three-hourly warnings, for local weather phenomena, and their intensity for about 800 stations and districts. In case of severe weather, its impact will also be included in the warning.
• The app will provide weather forecast for the next seven days for around 450 cities in India. Weather information of the past 24 hours will also be available on the app.
• It also has a system which will issue colour-coded alerts (red, yellow, orange) for all districts twice a day for up to five days to warn people ahead of dangerous weather.

PRELIMS QUESTION

Mausam app, recently in news has been launched by:
(a)Ministry of Science and Technology
(b)Ministry of Human resources development
(c)Ministry of Defense
(d)Ministry of Earth Sciences

Answer to prelims question