Environment & Weather

The IMD warned of damage to plantations, horticulture, and standing crops due to strong winds, and injury to people and cattle in open places due to hail.

“This is a turning point,” said Corina Heri, an expert in climate change litigation at the University of Zurich.

Scientists at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) have also detected early signs of a favourable monsoon season this year with fading El Nino conditions and reduced snow cover over Eurasia.

The region is set to receive moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, gusty winds and hail storms.

The civic body has already released guidelines for control and prevention of heat stroke.

It forecast hot and humid conditions in Odisha, with the mercury likely to soar to 40°Celsius.

As per an analysis, the state recorded 85,307 forest fire incidents between 2001 and 2022, averaging 3,877 fires annually and showing a general upward trend in forest fire occurrences.

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Experts are worried about lodging of wheat crop, which will be ready for harvest in a few weeks.

The minimum temperature in the city settled three notches below normal at 8.7 degrees Celsius, the IMD said. Humidity levels oscillated between 38 per cent and 92 per cent, it added.

The study, published in the journal Environment International, examined excess mortality in ten cities in different parts of India with different climate zones between 2008 and 2019.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed that El Nino has started weakening. La Nina is the cyclic counterpart to El Nino.

Rainwater levels in some reservoirs in Catalonia are so low that old bridges and a church bell tower have resurfaced.

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According to local Met office, isolated areas in the state's higher hills are very likely to witness snowfall on Thursday

In its weekly forecast, IMD further predicted dense fog and cold wave conditions in isolated pockets likely to continue to prevail over North India, including Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, and north Rajasthan, during the next five days.

The temperature was recorded at 1 degree celsius at Kanthal and Thalaikuntha in Udhagamandalam while the mercury was a notch higher at 2 degrees Celcius in Botanical Garden.

A cold wave is when the minimum dips to around 2°C.In this season, the previous lowest temperature 4.9 degrees C, was recorded on December 15

A fresh yet modest western disturbance may usher in the season’s inaugural light snowfall in the higher altitudes.