Tag: weather

Deadly floods that have upended life in both China and Germany have sent a stark reminder that climate change is making weather more extreme across the globe.

Large swathes of China's central Henan province were underwater on Wednesday, with at least a dozen people dead in its capital Zhengzhou after the city was drenched by what weather watchers said was the heaviest rain in 1,000 years.

At least 18 people, including seven children, were killed and 16 others injured by lightning strikes in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan late on Sunday, local officials said.

Fourteen people have died and 245,212 people belonging to 60, 674 families have been affected in ten districts due to adverse weather conditions experienced in the country, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.

The Department of Meteorology said that the sun is expected to be directly over Sri Lanka from April 5 to April 14, as a result of its apparent northward relative motion.

In yet another indication of warming global temperatures, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said the year 2020 was the eighth warmest year since 1901. Besides this, 12 of the 15 warmest years in this period were in the past one-and-a-half-decade (2006-2020), indicating that global temperature has been rising in the recent past.

This year is on track to be the second hottest on record, behind 2016, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. Five data sets currently place 2020, a year characterised by heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and raging hurricanes, as the second warmest since records began in 1850.