During the pre-monsoon season (March–May), eastern and north-eastern India receives
frequent thunderstorms. These thunderstorm events are responsible for sudden wind gusts …

While destruction associated with floods during the monsoon season and cyclones receives
wide attention, the extreme weather in the form of hail, lightning and high winds have also …

In terms of natural disasters, lightning is India's most devastating threat, causing over 2500
casualties per year, according to the latest annual report of the National Crime Record …

The evaluation and usefulness of lightning prediction for the Indian subcontinent are
demonstrated. Implementation of the lightning parameterizations based on storm …

Long-term trends in the frequency of thunderstorm days are investigated using fifty years of
data recorded by weather observatories throughout India. An attempt has been made to …

Lightning flash rate data measured by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) for
the period 1996–2013 over India are analysed to study the spatial and temporal variation of …

Thunderstorms are one of the most dangerous convective weather events. Despite the
recent advances in prediction of convective storms worldwide, thousands of casualties occur …

Monthly variations of lightning activity over typical land and oceanic regions of India were
examined using satellite data (OTD) for a 5-year period (1995–1999). It is noted that the …

Thunderstorms are one of the most devastating mesoscale severe weather phenomena,
which play an important role in the occurrence of rainfall activity over a region. Therefore, in …

The dynamic interaction of sea breeze with the prevailing synoptic flows can give rise to
meteorological conditions conducive for the occurrence to the thunderstorms over coastal …