The yr 2024 was the warmest on file in India since 1901, with the typical minimal temperature settling 0.90 levels Celsius above the long-period common.
The annual imply land floor air temperature throughout India in 2024 was 0.65 levels Celsius above the long-term common (1991-2020 interval), Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director basic of the India Meteorological Division (IMD), stated at a digital press briefing.
The yr 2024 now ranks because the warmest yr on file since 1901, surpassing 2016, which had recorded a imply land floor air temperature 0.54 levels Celsius above regular.
Based on the European local weather company Copernicus, 2024 possible ended because the warmest yr on file and the primary yr with a worldwide common temperature 1.5 levels Celsius above pre-industrial ranges.
A yearly evaluation report by two teams of local weather scientists — World Climate Attribution and Local weather Central — stated that the world skilled a median of 41 extra days of harmful warmth in 2024.
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