Farmers in a region spanning over 15 states in India will receive SMS updates about when the rainy season is likely to arrive in their locality this year. Rainy season arrival means the start of continuous rains, not just the first rainfall. Estimates indicate possibility of rainy season onset, not quantity of total rainfall. Please share this with other farmers in your locality. Please note: Real rainy season conditions may vary from the estimate.

Distributed forecasts combine information from the India Meteorological Department, and AI-based models and data from Google and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Forecasts use the AIFS model developed by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and the NeuralGCM model developed by Google (© 2024, Google). AIFS is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and NeuralGCM is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

We thank the University of Chicago Research Computing Center and Data Science Institute for providing the high-performance computing resources that make these forecasts possible.

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