NAGPUR-WEATHER

PLEASE REFER TO MY EARLIER BLOG DATED 21 DEC 2010. THE MERCURY BEHAVED EXACTLY AS I HAD MENTIONED.
THE S-WLIES IN THE LOWER LEVELS WILL BRING IN SOME AMOUNT OF MOISTURE WITH R.H. IN THE RANGE OF 50 TO 80%. WITH SLP DECREASING TO 1008 mb ON 31ST DEC 2010 (1015 mb ON 30TH DEC 2010) A SMALL AMOUNT OF MOISTURE SEEMS TO BE CREEPING IN. THUS, 29TH WILL BE MAINLY CLOUDY 30TH WILL BE PARTLY CLOUDY TILL 31ST EVENING. AS THE YEAR END BASH STARTS THE CLOUDS WILL GROW (ACCUMULATE) IN NUMBER AND WILL GIVE MAINLY CLOUDY WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR 2011. ABOUT 30% CHANCES OF SHOWERS ON 31ST LATE NIGHT/01ST EARLY MORNING (A DROP OR TWO IS EXPECTED).THE TOTAL PRECIPITATION AVAILABLE IN THE SYSTEM MAY NOT EXCEED 2 mm. THAT MEANS, BY THE TIME THE NEW-YEAR PARTY ENDS, ONE MAY FIND THEIR SEAT COVERS ON THE MOTORCYCLES IN A DAMP CONDITION, THAT’S IT.
THE MINIMUM TEMP ON 30TH WOULD BE AROUND 12 DEG CEL AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN THE TEENS. A DAY FULL OF CLOUDING WILL GIVE ENOUGH WARMTH AND BID A TEARFULL ADIEU TO 2010. THE NEW YEAR WILL SEE THE MIN TEMP RAISED TO ABOUT 19 DEG CEL, A STRAIGHT RISE OF ABOUT 6 TO 8 DEG IN TWO DAYS. ON 02 JAN 2011 THE MIN TEMP WILL AGAIN FALL BY AROUND 5 DEG, OWING TO CLEAR SKIES AND WINDS TURNING N-WLY, BRINGING IN SOME COLD. TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO 2010 A BREEZE OF ABOUT 12 Kmph ON 31ST WILL ALSO BE PRESENT.
SEE YOU HALE AND HEARTY IN THE NEXT YEAR 2011 WITH LATEST WEATHER UPDATES AND MANY MORE.

WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011.

Milind Phadke

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THE FAILURE OF GSLV BY ISRO

A VERY TRAGIC INCIDENCE HAPPENED ON 25TH DEC 2010. THE GSAT-5P COMMUNICATION SATELLITE ON BOARD GSLV-F06 ROCKET HAD TO BE DESTROYED IN LESS THAN TWO MINS AFTER LIFT OFF FROM SHRIHARIKOTA. THIS IS A MAJOR SET BACK TO INDIA’S AMBITIOUS SPACE PROGRAMME. THE MISSION COPNTROL ROOM AT ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) LOOKED GLOOMY AS THE MISSION FAILED TO LAUNCH THE HOME GROWN SATELLITE. THE LAUNCHER ROCKET (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle ) WAS FITTED WITH RUSSIAN MADE CRYOGENIC ENGINE. The GSLV IS A THREE-STAGE VEHICLE, WITH THE FIRST CORE STAGE POWERED BY SOLID PROPELLANTS, FOUR STRAP-ON MOTORS AROUND THE CORE STAGE, WHICH ARE FUELLED BY LIQUID PROPELLANTS, THE SECOND STAGE PROPELLED BY LIQUID PROPELLANTS AND THE THIRD TOPMOST STAGE USES CRYOGENIC PROPELLANTS. ISRO HAS TAKEN SEVEN LAUNCHES AND FOUR OF THEM HAVE FAILED. THE INDIA’S AMBITION OF ENTERING THE MARKET FOR HEAVY SATELLITE LAUNCHES IS GREATLY HURT. THE TRANSPONDER AUGUMENTATION FOR CONTINUANCE OF TELECOMMUNICATION AND TELECASTING SERVICES MAY NOT HAVE AFFECT BUT IT WOULD HAVE SURELY GIVEN A BOOST TO THE COMMUNICATION AS THE GSAT-5P WAS DESIGNED TO CARRY 24 C-BAND AND 12-EXTENDED C-BAND TRANSPONDERS. ‘THE HINDU’ REPORTS AS FOLLOWS:-
The very first flight in March 2001 was aborted one second before the lift-off because one of the four strap-on booster motors around the core first stage did not develop adequate thrust. So the computer aboard the rocket aborted the flight. Indian Space Research Organisation's rocket engineers solved the problem in less than a month and the flight took place on April 18, 2001. But the Russian cryogenic stage atop the vehicle underperformed and the satellite GSAT-1 was put in lower orbit than targeted. So the ISRO had to fire the liquid apogee booster motor on board the satellite more than needed to put the vehicle in the geo-synchronous orbit. Thus precious fuel was lost and the satellite ultimately came down in its orbit. The mission ended in failure. The next two GSLV flights were a big success and they put their satellites in orbit. But the flight of the GSLV-F02 on July 10, 2010, with INSAT-4C, ended in failure because of a manufacturing defect in one of the components of four strap-on booster motors. The vehicle was destroyed in mid-flight by the Range Safety Officer and its debris fell into the sea. The ISRO salvaged some parts of the vehicle from the Bay of Bengal. The third failure took place on April 15, 2010 when the GSLV-D3 did not put GSAT-4 in orbit. This flight had raised a lot of hopes because it carried an indigenous cryogenic engine. It did not succeed due to the failure of the fuel booster turbo pump in the Indian cryogenic upper stage. There were two reasons for this failure — gripping at one of the seal locations and seizure of rotor rupture of turbine casing caused probably by excessive rise in pressure and temperature. The GSLV-F06 flight on Saturday has also ended in failure because a command to control the vehicle did not reach the actuator in the first stage of the vehicle. This vehicle carried a Russian cryogenic stage in the third topmost stage. After a delay of five days, because of leak of helium gas from one of the valves in the Russian cryogenic stage, the GSLV-F06 finally took off on Saturday. While it cost Rs. 175 crore to build the GSLV-F06, for the GSAT-5P it cost Rs. 150 crore.

ABOUT MICROSOFT GENUINE ADVANTAGE

The following information is received in mail and is reworded here:-

The installation pack of Microsoft Office will still continue to have the installation code, despite the pirated versions getting updates. Checking the pirated soft-wares was a real major ache for Microsoft, while the public kept using pirated Windows OS and MS Office. Now Microsoft allows you to download any copy of MS Office, without checking for its genuineness. Similarly, downloading of templates will also not go through the ‘genuine check’. It seems that they have shut down their Genuine Office Advanced Program and allowed the pirated versions of Windows OS and MS Office to get regular downloads (upgrades).

So…………all dummies may rush to the Microsoft site for getting their OS and Microsoft products up-to-date.

Milind Phadke
+919890317557

Is POK officially part of Pakistan?

Dear all,
Please find enclosed herewith are two images, first from Nepal meteorological office and the second from India Meteorological Department. We still continue to show on our maps that POK is officially integral part of INDIA, but the international agencies think otherwise and they project POK as a part of Pakistan. Is there any agency to monitor the recognized international border is correctly depicted on all maps internationally ? Time and again, this issues has been raised, but some agencies still do not follow the norms, because we have been too lenient in dealing with them. They are least afraid of Indian Government, because we still do believe in pardoning the wrong doers, either be it the attackers of Indian Parliament, or misleading the world at large by wrongly projecting the international borders.
It is expected from all to bring to notice this issue with concerned authorities, so that corrective measures can be taken immediately, without fail.
Thanks and regards.
Milind Phadke
+919890317557

NAGPUR-WEATHER

AS MENTIONED EARLIER, THE MINIMUM TEMPS WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN THE RANGE OF 10 DEG CEL (+2/-3). FROM TOMMORROW ONWARDS THE MIN TEMPS WILL RISE BY ABOUT 1 TO 1.5 DEG CEL, GRADUALLY, DAILY AND BY MONDAY THE 27TH DEC 2010 THE MIN TEMPS WOULD BE IN THE RANGE OF 14 TO 15 DEG CEL........A STRAIGHT BUT GRADUAL RISE OF ABOUT 05 DEG CEL. SKY CONDITIONS WILL BE PARTLY CLOUDY FROM SAT THE 25TH DEC 2010 AND MAXIMUM TEMPS MAY FALL ON 29TH DEC 2010 DUE TO EXTENSIVE CLOUDING AS THE UPPER WINDS ARE CHANGING THEIR DIRECTION TO SSW TO WSW, BRINGING IN SOME MOISTURE FROM DOWN SOUTH.

NEXT WX UPATE LIKELY AROUND 28TH DEC 2010.

MILIND PHADKE

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