New Delhi: Year, 2021, is the hottest years of fifth in India since the national record began in the country in 1901, said the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) in the 2021 report ‘.
Annual compilation, which was released on Friday, also showed that the country reported losing 1,750 lives because last year’s extreme weather events with Maharashtra became the most severe country reported 350 deaths.
Lightning and storm took the highest lives – 787 – followed by heavy rain, floods, and landslides which caused the death of 759 people.
Cyclone caused 172 deaths in various countries in 2021.
In the phenomenon of heating, the report showed that 11 of the 15-year-old years in the country for the last 15 years (2007-2021) with the highest heating observed during 2016 when it was 0.71.
Celsius is above the average period (LPA) based on the period 1981-2010.
The average annual average surface air temperature above India for 2021 is 0.44 degrees C above the LPA.
“Winter (January to February) and post-monsoon (October to December) season with all the average temperature anomalies (actual-LPA temperature) of +0.78 degrees C and +0.42 degrees C mainly contributing to this warming , “said The Met Department in his report explaining how the relatively short of winter last year last year mainly contributed to the overall average temperature of the year.
However, all-India means the temperature for two other seasons such as pre-monsoon (March to May) and Monsun (June to September) also “above normal” with anomalies +0.35 degrees C and +0.34 degrees C, respectively -Masing.
The average surface temperature of India seems synchronous with the increase in the global average surface temperature.
Annual rainfall 2021 in India is 105% of its LPA based on the period 1961-2010.
IMD also compiles the standard precipitation index used to monitor the condition of drought.