What are the salient features of Mission Mausam launched by the Government of India? Why is such a mission needed? What are the likely challenges in its effective implementation?

Mission Mausam was recently launched by the Prime Minister to enable improved weather forecasting - long term & short term Use of Super Computers (features of Mission) radars Brop in hyper local weather local weather forecasting Need of Mission Mausam: i Improve disaster occurrences - act as early warning signals ii Rayond landslide legs losses due to lack of local EWS iii Improve resilience of Agriculture Sector

day-to-local weather data iv Severe winter safety - LAs MMVs easy handling regarding heat houses, orange rain alerts etc v Enhanced data collection to improve weather forecasting & modelling Challenges in Implementation: i Lack of adequate radars & weather dapples ii India - 39 dapples vs 219 china iii Shortage of supercomputers for proper forecasting iv Hyper local weather data difficult due to varied infrastructure lacking Thus the need of the hour is to increase investment, capacity building and data sharing to ensure achievement of Mausam Mausam