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How does La Niña affect India’s climate? | Explained
1 week ago

How does La Niña affect India’s climate? | Explained

The Hindu  

La Niña, a phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, occurs when the region of the Pacific Ocean between Indonesia and South America is cooler than usual. Climate change may increase the frequency and intensity of both La Niña and El Niño events, as rising sea and land temperatures disrupt the Pacific’s balance. Meteorology of a La Niña winter Cities …

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Heatwave: Why is north and central India facing a severe heatwave? | Explained
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Heatwave: Why is north and central India facing a severe heatwave? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: At least five people in Bihar’s Aurangabad city reportedly died on Thursday due to a sunstroke, news agency Reuters reported. Parts of north and central India continued to reel under a severe heatwave on Thursday, even as the India Meteorological Department predicted a gradual fall in temperature over the next five days. As per the IMD …

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What are the reasons and concerns related to floods in Kenya? | Explained
7 months, 1 week ago

What are the reasons and concerns related to floods in Kenya? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: India on May 14 sent fresh consignments of relief materials, including medicines and essential supplies, to the flood-affected people of Kenya, as the nation continues to reel under the impact of incessant rainfall and flooding. At least 2,000 schools in Kenya could not open on Monday despite an announcement to this effect by President William Ruto, …

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Global warming’s patterns are more important than its levels | Explained
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Global warming’s patterns are more important than its levels | Explained

The Hindu  

Many warming records were broken in 2023 along with climate disasters such as wildfires, cyclones, droughts, and floods. In this time, the focus of the public narrative – often with the participation of scientists – has often been on whether we crossed the ‘magical’ warming threshold of 1.5 degrees C. The best estimates, derived from data recorded by instruments, say …

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Why Himachal Pradesh had its most rainless January since 1901 | Explained
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Why Himachal Pradesh had its most rainless January since 1901 | Explained

The Hindu  

January is usually the month when Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh are blanketed with snow. The Himalayan ranges of Uttarakhand have also reported minimal snowfall, with the first bout of snow in January at Auli, a popular hill resort, only reported on January 19. Records from the India Meteorological Department suggest Himachal Pradesh has registered its driest January since 1901, with …

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Indian Monsoon: What is El Nino and It's Impact on Rainy Season Explained
1 year, 6 months ago

Indian Monsoon: What is El Nino and It's Impact on Rainy Season Explained

News 18  

Cyclone Biparjoy is now completely detached from the monsoonal flow and will not adversely impact the advance of the rain-bearing system or its performance, the India Meteorological Department said on Tuesday. India is expected to get normal rainfall during the southwest monsoon season despite the evolving El Nino conditions, the IMD had earlier said. In the 1930s, climatologists, led by …

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Explained: Why El Niño is not good for monsoon rains in India
1 year, 6 months ago

Explained: Why El Niño is not good for monsoon rains in India

Firstpost  

The El Niño weather phenomenon is here and it is expected to send temperatures soaring globally. Experts also worry that with an El Niño event this year, India is unlikely to receive normal rainfall during the monsoon The El Niño phase is finally here, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “During El Niño events, these winds weaken or …

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Explained | How El Nino could impact the world's weather in 2023-24
1 year, 6 months ago

Explained | How El Nino could impact the world's weather in 2023-24

The Hindu  

Countries are racing to prepare for extreme weather later this year as the world tips into an El Nino — a natural climate phenomenon that fuels tropical cyclones in the Pacific and boosts rainfall and flood risk in parts of the Americas and elsewhere. Peru has set aside $1.06 billion to deal with El Nino's impacts and climate change, while …

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Explained | March 2023 was the second-warmest March, not the first. What does this mean?
1 year, 8 months ago

Explained | March 2023 was the second-warmest March, not the first. What does this mean?

The Hindu  

It has become a standard routine now to rank each month in terms of how warm it is compared to the same month in previous years in the instrumental record. Climate variability March 2023 was indeed the second warmest in the instrumental record. The warmest March occurred just a few years ago in 2016, when the biggest El Niño of …

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Explained | Why Mumbai’s cooler March may be a prelude to heat and heavy rain
1 year, 8 months ago

Explained | Why Mumbai’s cooler March may be a prelude to heat and heavy rain

The Hindu  

Mumbaikars have been pleasantly surprised this March because the whole month was cooler and drier than normal. The northern Arabian Sea has also been warming, and the combination of this land and ocean warming have enhanced the duration, frequency, and intensity of heat waves over India in the pre-monsoon season. Rapid warming over the Middle East produces low sea-level pressure …

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Explained | IMD is already sensing heat waves. What are they and why do they happen?
1 year, 9 months ago

Explained | IMD is already sensing heat waves. What are they and why do they happen?

The Hindu  

In the week of February 21, the India Meteorological Department warned that the maximum temperatures over northwest, west, and central India would be 3-5° C higher than the long-term average. The 2022 heatwave season was also unusual because the heat waves extended much further south into peninsular India thanks to a north-south pressure pattern set up by the La Niña, …

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Explained | Why India is watching the El Niño forecast with bated breath
1 year, 10 months ago

Explained | Why India is watching the El Niño forecast with bated breath

The Hindu  

India is experiencing a colder than normal winter thanks to the north-south winter flow set up by the weather phenomenon known as La Niña. Years in which an El Niño occurs are simply called ‘El Niño years’, and global weather patterns in that year tend to be anomalous in certain ways. But the earth has had three straight La Niña …

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Explained | Why did Ooty have such a cold Pongal?
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained | Why did Ooty have such a cold Pongal?

The Hindu  

At around 7 am on January 14, as the day before Pongal dawned on Udhagamandalam, a local temperature gauge measured an unusually frigid ground temperature of –6.3º C in the town’s Fingerpost locality. At the start of 2022, the World Meteorological Organisation said the ongoing La Niña is the 21st century’s first ‘triple dip’: spanning three consecutive winters. But in …

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Explained | El Niño, La Niña and changing weather patterns
2 years ago

Explained | El Niño, La Niña and changing weather patterns

The Hindu  

The story so far: A new study projects that climate change will significantly impact El Niño-La Niña weather patterns approximately by 2030 — a decade before what was earlier predicted, and around four decades earlier than the suggested timeline without separating the two regimes. El Niño and La Niña are atmospheric patterns that influence warming and cooling of sea surface …

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Explained: What is behind the heat waves affecting the United States?
2 years, 4 months ago

Explained: What is behind the heat waves affecting the United States?

India Today  

Virtually all the contiguous United States experienced above normal temperatures in the past week, with more dangerously hot weather forecast. That is resulting in swings in the North Atlantic jet stream, which in turn leads to extreme weather events like heat waves and floods, according to Jennifer Francis, senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. Because summer temperatures trend …

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