Meteorological Office, Port Blair is one of the oldest Central Government offices established in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This office started its basic weather observational operations way back in 01.06.1868. Since then it is being periodically upgraded with more modern observational facilities. It is well known among the local public as ‘HawaGhar’ / ‘Observatory’ and is located at HawaGarh Junction, Shadipur. This office functions under the administrative control of Regional Meteorological Centre(RMC), Kolkata of India Meteorological Department(IMD), NewDelhi, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India.

The Port Blair observatory functions on round the clock basis(24X7) and it is a part of the Global Atmospheric Watch(GAW) network stations of World Meteorological Organisation(WMO) for monitoring the background atmospheric parameters. In view of the strategic geographical location in Bay of Bengal, various atmospheric parameters observed at this office and also at different part-time observatories functioning across the Islands have significant importance in weather prediction not only for the Islands but also for the country as a whole. It is a well known fact that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are prone to various natural disasters of Geological and Hydro-meteorological origins. Meteorological Office, Port Blair, plays important role in disaster management by way of providing weather forecasting and seismological monitoring. Apart from this it coordinates with all local administrative stalk holders such as Agriculture department, APWD, Directorate of Disaster Management, District Administrations in weather forecasting services and educational/research institutions like CARI, Pondichery University in academic activities.

In addition, this office provides technical support for maintenance of 5 part-time observatories located at other parts of the Islands and collecting weather parameters of these observatories with the active participation of Police Radio personnel and disseminate the same to Regional office, Kolkata and IMD’s HQ at NewDelhi for generation of forecasting reports.

Meteorological Office
Shadipur
PORT BLAIR-744 106, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
India
Fax: 03192 228480 (For weather enquiry), 227750 (Administration)
E-mail: imd[dot]pbl[at]gmail[dot]com
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The following services are offered by Meteorological Office, Port Blair

The following observational facilities are available at Meteorological Office, Port Blair

The Director General of Meteorology
India Meteorological Department
Mausam Bhavan
Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110003
Phone No: 011-24618241-47, 24654629-31
Fax No: 011-24699216 / 24623220
Website: www.imd.gov.in

The Deputy Director General of Meteorology
Regional Meteorological Centre
No.4, Duel Avenue, Alipore
Kolkata - 700027
Phone No: 033-24793941, 42, 43
Fax No: 033-24793782 / 24793167
E-mail Id: kolkatarmc[at]gmail[dot]com
Website: www.imdkolkata.gov.in

The general public may send their suggestions or query, if any, to the office email id imd[dot]pbl[at]gmail[dot]com or kannan[dot]imd[at]gmail[dot]com.

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