Meet Meteorologist Jagadish Shukla, a Product of the Intellectual Pipeline That Makes America Great - American Kahani

Meet Meteorologist Jagadish Shukla, a Product of the Intellectual Pipeline That Makes America Great - American Kahani

In 1970, a nervous but optimistic 26-year-old stepped off a plane in Boston with a dream that would reshape meteorology. Jagadish Shukla, who had grown up praying for monsoon rains in the village of Mirdha in Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh, arrived at MIT with a singular mission: unlock the secrets of seasonal weather prediction.  “Until just four decades ago, the scientific consensus held that weather could not be predicted beyond ten days; Shu…