TamilNadu Agriculture Weather Network

helping people with real time weather

Success of monsoon based agriculture depends on the climate that prevailed during the particular cropping season. Providing real time weather information to the farmers for making crop management decision can minimize the risk and losses due to extreme climate. In order to improve the accuracy of present weather forecasting, weather information are required at high spatial and temporal resolution. Installation and interlinking of automatic weather stations (AWS) at block level will be helpful to avoid climate risks and increase the productivity by timely weather based agro advisory.

In this context, Government of Tamil Nadu under National Agricultural Development Project (NADP) have funded for establishing Tamil Nadu Agricultural Weather Network (TAWN) by installing 385 AWS, 224 in the first phase and 161 in the second phase.

The Agro Climate Research Centre (ACRC), Directorate of Crop Management(DCM), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore in collaboration with Department of Agriculture, Tamil Nadu established the TAWN.

In the network, 10 types of agricultural related weather parameters from 385 AWS are collected at hourly interval and hosted in this website. The medium range weather forecast developed by using these weather parameters is also hosted. Using this information the Agricultural officers will develop weather based agro advisories at block level for the farmers.

It is first of its kind in India, such a denser weather network has been established and is expected to help in monitoring the global warming and climate change impacts on Tamil Nadu Agriculture.