Meghdoot vs Kerala Rain

Meghdoot, a joint initiative of India Meteorological Department (IMD), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and Indian Council OF Agricultural Research (ICAR) aims to deliver critical information to farmers through a simple and easy to use mobile application. The mobile application was developed by the Digital Agriculture research theme at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad in collaboration with IITM, Pune and IMD, Delhi. The app seamlessly aggregates contextualized district and crop wise advisories issued by Agro Met Field Units (AMFU) every Tuesday and Friday with the forecast and historic weather information to the fingertips of the farmers. The advisories are also issued in vernacular wherever available.

Kerala Rain, first weather App dedicated only to Kerala weather, rains and floods impacting lives of Keralite always. Kerala Rain & Weather app help the users with real-time temperatures, rainfall figures, relative humidity, and wind speed for the current and nearby cities to the users. Kerala Rain app showcases weather data (maximum and minimum temperatures, rainfall figures, relative humidity, and wind speed) for all the major cities and location of Kerala. Along with the live and real-time weather / rainfall information, Kerala Rain & Flood app, also helps with the hourly weather / rainfall forecast up to 24 hours in advance. This would help Keralites to plan their day well in advance and be weather ready. Along with this, the Kerala Rain & Flood app also captures the inundation data for all the major locations in Kerala, so as to identify the flood situation and act upon it in advance. The Kerala Rain & Flood Map features help the user to view the real-time weather / rainfall information (maximum and minimum temperatures, rainfall figures, relative humidity, and wind speed) fetched directly from Skymet Weather’s Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) for all the major cities and locations of Kerala. Not only this, The Kerala Rain & Flood maps also helps user with the rainfall forecast data for all the major cities and locations of Kerala, along with the heat map of the state. The unique feature of the Kerala Rain & Flood map feature is that this will help the user with city’s real-time traffic and with live rainfall information over one map, so that the he/she can plan their travel well and be always weather ready. This Kerala Rain & Flood Rain app also help the users with weather alerts for their cities, so that the user can plan their activities accordingly.