Mon­soon rains in India, Nepal, Pak­istan, and Bangladesh over the past month has accord­ing to the UN affect­ed 41 mil­lion peo­ple, and left an esti­mat­ed 1,200 dead. 

The lat­est on the sub­con­ti­nent was on Tues­day August 29 when the rain, the …

Mon­soon rains hit ear­ly on Tues­day August 29 caus­ing flood­ing in the Mum­bai and Pune areas with imme­di­ate action by local HAMS help­ing out dur­ing the adverse weather.

All traf­fic was dis­rupt­ed, even local trains and bus­es were sub­merged and …

Hur­ri­cane Har­vey began in the Caribbean, watched by the Emer­gency and Weath­er Net with radio ama­teurs acti­vat­ing 3.815 MHz, then it moved to the Gulf of Mex­i­co and inten­si­fied into a Cat­e­go­ry 4 storm to come ashore in Texas. 

The weather …

The tra­di­tion­al time for adverse weath­er sys­tems is the Atlantic Hur­ri­cane Sea­son that begins on June 1 and runs through to the end of November. 

The IARU Region 2 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Coor­di­na­tors are ready with an aver­age of six hurricanes …

Tor­ren­tial mon­soon­al rain in south-west­­ern Sri Lan­ka last Sun­day sparked a flood and land­slip dis­as­ter result­ing in the Radio Soci­ety of Sri Lan­ka (RSSL) receiv­ing an urgent call for help. 

RSSL Pres­i­dent, Jaliya Lokesh­wara 4S7JL got an emer­gency call …