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India's 51st Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) was inaugurated at Jamadarpali, Sambalpur, Odisha on 16 September 2026, a Make in India installation under Mission Mausam.
Union MoS (Independent Charge) for Earth Sciences Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated it virtually, with Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi present.
It watches a 250 km radius at 150 m resolution, refreshing every 10 minutes, covering 13 western Odisha districts and parts of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
It is Odisha's third DWR after the coastal radars at Paradip and Gopalpur; India's network has grown from 14 radars in 2014 to 51.
Forecasting weather for the next few hours by extrapolating what radars and satellites see right now. A Doppler radar's frequent scans of rain intensity and wind motion inside clouds let forecasters warn of a thunderstorm or hailstorm shortly before it strikes a district.
Simple Analogy: Reading where a storm is heading from where it is moving now.
Make India 'weather-ready and climate-smart' through denser observation, better models and weather management capability.
Key: Approved by the Union Cabinet on 11 September 2024 with Rs 2,000 crore over two years; implemented chiefly by IMD, IITM Pune and NCMRWF under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
National weather service that operates the Doppler radar network.
Nodal ministry for Mission Mausam and IMD.
Sambalpur lies in western Odisha on the Mahanadi, just downstream of the Hirakud Dam. A radar here fills the gap between the coastal radars at Paradip and Gopalpur and the plateau districts bordering Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
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Radar that reads the frequency shift of echoes to measure how fast rain and wind are moving, not just where they are.
Very short-range forecasting, for the next few hours, from live radar and satellite data.
Rs 2,000 crore MoES mission (2024) to expand India's weather observation and forecasting.