Intense early heat wave may not positively impact monsoon: meteorologists

IMD said last week that average maximum temperature this March across the country at 33.10 degree Celsius is highest ever in the past 122 years

Though it is sometimes commonly believed that intense summer heat has a positive impact on the initial thrust of southwest monsoon that follows immediately after, scientists and meteorologists say that there is no direct correlation between intense heatwave and monsoon, particularly when the wave is early into the season.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in an assessment released last week said that average maximum temperature recorded in March 2022 across the country at 33.10 degree Celsius is the highest ever in the last 122 years and it has broken the earlier highest ever of 33.09 Celsius recorded in March 2010.