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Warmer summer this year, predicts met department
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its hot weather season outlook has forecastthat temperatures across the country is expected to remain upto one degree above normal except in North-West parts of the country where it is likely to even hotter at over one degree above normal. "Studies also indicate increasing trends in the frequency and duration of heat waves across the country which can be attributed to increasing trends in the greenhouse gases and the warming of the sea surface temperatures over the equatorial Indian and Pacific Oceans," the met department said in a statement today.The met department which started coming out with its annual summer season forecast since 2016 said that above normal heat wave conditions are likely to prevail over the core zone. The core heat zone comprises of states like Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Telengana and ...
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Hottest June ever recorded worldwide
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India is drying out, study claims
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