Exceptional Warming of Peninsular India: IMD report
A recent report of IMD on weather patterns shows that Peninsular India has recorded the warmest January in 121 years with a mean temperature of 22.33 degrees Celsius. The country also experienced the warmest January in 62 years.
- According to the report Peninsular India has also recorded unusually high rainfall in January - 45.9mm against normal of 8.9mm (+433 per cent above normal), highest since 1951.
- There was a prolonged wet spell of around 17 days over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal from January 1 to 17 when there was widespread rain.
Causes of Warm January
- Recurrent western disturbances resulted in ....
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