Meteorological Centre Chandigarh 3.07

Met Centre Chandigarh established in 1980 and Started functioning w.e.f 1st January ,1982. Prime mandate of the Centre is to provide Non Aviation Weather forecast and climate services to Met subdivision of Punjab ,Haryana Chandigarh and its neighbouring area and all other prime users in central/State Govt like Agriculture, Irrigation, Power, Railway, Roadways , Sports, Disaster Management, Relief and rehabilitation. Agromet advisory services in Punjab and Haryana Started with effect from 24 February 1985 to provide exclusive services to Agriculture sector . Prior to its shifting to new office this office had no observatory of its own and used observational data of IAF observatory Installed at IAF Aerodrome, Chandigarh. Since it inception Met Centre Chandigarh expanded its services with state of art communication, Observations systems and is now working with it own premises since 24th August 2009 spread over 1.5 acre of land both for office and residential purpose with six unit at the centre .Centre is equipped with state of art technology with the setting up of High Performance Computing System (HPCS) in November 2009.