IMD Predicts Summer to be Hotter Than Normal This Year

This year also some parts will witness intense heat wave conditions

New Delhi, April 1: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted warmer days in most parts of India this year. There will be above normal temperatures between April and June.

Last year was regarded as the hottest year till now. And this year also some parts will witness intense heat wave conditions. The IMD, however, said the temperatures in east, east-central and southern India, which include Odisha, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, are likely to be lower than the usual, indicating that the onset of monsoon will be on time.

India has long suffered deadly heatwaves. Periods of extreme temperatures have led to thousands of deaths since the 1990s, largely in rural areas where basic infrastructure is poor.

El Niño is a climatic phenomenon that causes irregular variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean. It occurs when water in the western tropical Pacific Ocean becomes abnormally warm. Its causes droughts in places in the Western Pacific that are usually damp, such as areas in Indonesia and Australia, and drier places such as the west coast of South America suffer floods.

PTI quoted that severe heat-wave conditions in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have killed thousands of people over the past a few years. According to a government data released last year, 4,624 people died due to heat-wave between 2013 and 2017, of which 92 per cent of casualties were reported from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

(With Agency Inputs)