Faizan Arif, 20, a youth from Nawakadal area of Srinagar who is pursuing his graduation from Amity University Lucknow with physics as one of the main subjects is providing information to thousands of his followers on his weather channel “Kashmir Weather”, available on almost every social media platform.
Faizan, since his childhood he used to wait outside his house to see lightning and thunder, the pattern of rain along with the formation of clouds which slowly inclined him towards weather prediction. every day, he goes through reports by UKMO, GFS, GDPS, ECMWF, ICON, Access Global, and others to understand weather patterns and on the basis of all the information prepares the weather report.
Faizan predicting the weather has become his passion and will now make his career in the same field by pursuing MSc in Meteorology and so on. Faizan also claims that last year in November has given a detailed long-range weather forecast (for November 2020 to February 2021) for Jammu and Kashmir – predicting the behavior of temperature and precipitation during the winter and before him, no one has issued such a detailed forecast for the region.“Besides this, research with Sonam Lotus and Mukhtar Ahmad is currently in progress. The research is based on the effect of La Niña and El Niño on precipitation and temperature pattern of Jammu and Kashmir
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