Kohima district prone to lightning, says weather scientist

NSDMA to launch certificate course on lightening education soon

Our Reporter
Dimapur, Sep. 3 (EMN): In Nagaland, Kohima is one of the districts most prone to lightning. This was informed during a webinar session with renowned weather scientist Dr. KJ Ramesh and chairperson of CROPC Col. Sanjay Srivastava as the panellists.

As a prelude to the state-wide Lightning Resilient India campaign, the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), Home department organised a webinar on “Lightning hazard: Mitigation and public safety” on Wednesday in collaboration with Climate Resilient Observing Systems Promotion Council (CROPC).

The objective of the webinar session was to understand the reason behind the power and nature of lightning and climate change, and also to understand lightning in the state.

The NSDMA will be launching a certificate course on lightening education and other courses regarding disaster risk reduction mitigation, it was informed.

Ramesh elaborated about the weather phenomenon and climate change, how it affects the environment and how it is affecting our day-to-day life. He also spoke about how awareness should be focused more on agriculture sector as ‘the tribal people depend on it and during work they encounter devastating lighting strike incidents’.

Srivastava in his address expounded on the three types of lightning -- cloud-to-ground, cloud-to-air and cloud-to-cloud.

Cloud-to-cloud, he explained, is lightning that occurs between two or more separate clouds; cloud-to-ground is one that occurs between the cloud and the ground; and cloud-to-air occurs when the air around a positively charged cloud top reaches out to the negatively charged air around it.

The webinar session was hosted by OSD of NSDMA Johnny Ruangmei.