Recent incident of cloud burst and rain hazards at
KEDARNATH , GANGOTRI and other surrounding areas must behave as an eye opener for those organizer or institutions who
claim themselves as good hazard
management institutions or Aapda
Prabandhak. Teaching institutes of such subject need also revise the syllabus
of their courses. How much we are ready to fight with any eventuality is
obvious from the fact that when information goes to fire brigade stations about
fire at some place it starts filling in its vehicles tank with water.
Cloud burst
and heavy rain in the Himalayan valleys is
not new thing.
During process of regular and
yearly hydrological cycles , water evaporated
from the sea surface rises above
and their concentration forms
the clouds. Pressure changes in the atmosphere causes westerly, south westerly and South easterly flow
of the wind. The wind which is cloud laden forms the monsoon. Cloud releases its water
contents in form of drops and
droplets of water ,
of varying gravity called
rains, when it
reaches tropical
and temperate climatic zones of
the atmosphere. When the cloud
concentration
is so
favoured by the natural processes, that it
becomes a very big chunk of water
in the atmosphere itself and
it falls at one
point and place
with its full and heavy devastating loads which
is called
“cloud burst”. Just the way cloud burst take place,
likewise there can be fall of big pieces of ice in the same manner.
REMEDY SUGGESTED -
Climatic survey department
should also be given weightage. Its study
and management should include
syllabus like aeronautics, dissipation of clouds
artificially by flying
and
Traversing
over it by aero planes with such
accessory arrangements fitted
over it. Artificial release
of cloud water by
salt seeding by
balloon blasting. To verify the
practical effect of
the sky experiment on
the earth surface
the students should
be given training
in mountaineering.
North Bihar prone
to flood hazards, there such research oriented experiments took place to have
control over the
clouds were started
and done in 1960-70. But with
advent of satellite
images and computer, attentions were diverted
to three-D formulations
and interpretations and the
above thought was
left behind. But now it seems that this is the high time to revive back those research plans.
