As mid-February approaches, Delhi has been recording considerably above-normal temperatures for this time of the 12 months.
The temperature has been on the rise, nearing the 30 diploma Celsius mark on Tuesday — the warmest day of the season. On Wednesday, the utmost settled at 26.5 levels Celsius, three levels above regular.
This follows an exceptionally heat January, the most popular since 2019, with the month-to-month common temperature climbing to 21.1 levels Celsius. In 2019, the January common was 21.2 levels Celsius.
Whereas the utmost temperature in Delhi has been above regular for the previous week, the minimal has additionally been on the rise over the previous 4 days. At 11.6 levels Celsius, Wednesday’s minimal temperature was a notch above regular.
The IMD has forecast sturdy floor winds throughout the daytime until Friday. Mist circumstances are seemingly after that.
The night time temperature is forecast to rise to 13 levels Celsius by February 17. Throughout the identical interval, the utmost is forecast to stay above regular between 27 and 29 levels Celsius.
Just like 2022 and 2016, this 12 months too noticed no chilly wave days in January. Feeble western disturbances have additionally meant no chilly wave days in February thus far.
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The India Meteorological Division (IMD), in its month-to-month forecast for February, warned of above-normal temperatures with below-normal rainfall over most components of the nation. It additionally forecast fewer chilly wave days over the northwest plains.
The dearth of considerable western disturbances resulted in a deficit in rainfall and snowfall, resulting in greater than typical temperatures and impacting air high quality.
The Air High quality Index (AQI) has remained within the reasonable and poor classes this month thus far due to hotter temperatures and robust floor winds.
In accordance with the IMD, the below-normal rainfall, coupled with greater temperatures over the plains of Northwest India in February, is predicted to have vital opposed results on standing crops akin to wheat, significantly throughout the flowering and grain-filling levels.
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Crops like mustard and chickpea may expertise early maturity. Horticultural crops like apples and different temperate stone fruits might face untimely bud break and early flowering because of the hotter temperatures, leading to poor fruit setting and high quality, which may finally have an effect on yield.
To mitigate these opposed impacts and maintain crop development, intermittent gentle irrigation shall be essential, the IMD said. It added that the anticipated regular to below-normal most temperatures in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh will seemingly restrict the opposed results of chilly waves on subject crops.
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