IMD adds new tourist-friendly feature on website

Indian Meteorological Department has added a new tourist-friendly feature on its website, keeping travellers updated on the weather conditions of their place of visit.
The recently introduced 'tourism forecast' service provides weather forecast of the places of tourist interest in all the states to help travellers prepare themselves accordingly.
In case of Rajasthan, for example, it provides information of six places frequented by both foreign and domestic tourists -- Ajmer, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Mount Abu and Udaipur.
Weather forecast of the popular hill state of Uttarakhand is provided for five places which are Dehradun, Haridwar, Joshimath, Mussorie and Nainital.
Forecast such the maximum and minimum temperature, sunrise and sunset, the days general forecast and the weather conditions for the coming four days are also provided.

In case of Jammu and Kashmir, forecast is provided for places such as Gulmarg, Jammu, Katra, Leh, Pehalgam and Srinagar.
Down south, places in Tamil Nadu about which the weather forecast is being provided are Coimbatore, Kanyakumari, Kodaikanal, Madurai and Tiruchirapalli.