The month of March this year had the highest average temperature in India in 122 years. According to the Meteorological Department, people in North and Central India are not likely to get relief from the scorching heat in the coming days. Regarding the weather conditions, the pattern of monsoon and its effect on the Himalayan and coastal areas, Rajendra Kumar Jenamani, senior scientist of the National Weather Forecasting Center in the India Meteorological Department (IMD), told that the record of temperature in India started from the year 1901. Was. The temperature for the month of March in the year 2022 has exceeded the all-time average of the average maximum temperature recorded in March of the year 2010. The mean maximum temperature in March 2010 was 33.09 degree Celsius but in March 2022 the average temperature was 33.1 degree Celsius.
The world has also seen the hottest years in two decades. Climate change is having an effect on the intensity of the weather, in India it has also been seen in the form of severe floods, cyclones or heavy rains. In this, due to the absence of any widespread weather system in the north and western disturbances in the north, the effect of lack of rainfall is also one of the reasons. In the last few years, there have been many days when it has not rained. In some cases it rained heavily and the heat also increased.
Jenamani said that in the second half of March this year, there was an increase in temperature in many parts of the country, but there was less rainfall. Delhi, Haryana and hill stations of North India also recorded above normal temperature during the day. Record maximum temperatures were recorded in March 2022 at many places including Delhi, Chanderpur, Jammu, Dharamsala, Patiala, Dehradun, Gwalior, Kota and Pune.
The mountainous tourist destinations of the Western Himalayan region also recorded very high temperatures during the day. Hill stations like Dehradun, Dharamsala or Jammu recorded temperatures in the range of 34-35 degree Celsius in March, which is very high. This time the temperature was higher than those areas, relatively colder weather should have prevailed. An example of this is the western Himalayan region, where nothing like this has been seen for a long time.
According to meteorologists, when a month is comparatively warmer, then it indicates that it is the effect of climate change. The effect of climate change is that the temperature in March this year was more affected. In such a situation, in 122 years, the average temperature in March this year was the highest at the all-India level. He said the El Nio effect reflects an unusually high temperature rise of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
However, the increase in temperature in India in recent times is not related to the El Nio effect. India is a very large country and many weather phenomena are also due to local influence. The month of April has just started and there is still time for the monsoon to arrive. We don’t have any study that links the monsoon pattern on the basis of temperature in March. In such a situation, nothing can be said about the effect on monsoon.