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India struggles to perfect art of monsoon forecasting

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"Current capabilities to forecast monsoon are not sufficient," Shailesh Nayak, the top civil servant in the ministry of earth sciences which controls the country's weather office, told Reuters. "We need to augment our capabilities to forecast monsoon more accurately."

Sophisticated statistical models are used by Indian officials to predict weather patterns, but not as precisely as would be required reports the news agency.

"We have to bring in uncertainties of monsoon forecast to forefront to better understand complexities involved with the business of weather prediction," said Ajit Tyagi, India's weather office chief, in the same report.

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