-Hindustan Times The European Space Agency’s website also showed land surface temperatures to be nearing 55 degrees Celsius over many parts of northwest India and crossing 60 degrees Celsius over several pockets. New Delhi: Surface land temperatures exceeded 60 degrees Celsius over some parts of northwest India, according to imagery captured by satellites on Saturday. Images of land surface captured by INSAT 3D, Copernicus Sentinel 3 and a NASA satellite indicated that...
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Not Just A Hotter April - Why Heatwave 2022 Is Different -Chetan Bhattacharji
-NDTV blog A huge part of India - northwest and central - has just experienced its hottest April on record. This is not just another heatwave. This is what scientists have been warning for decades, that global warming will lead to more frequent and more intense extreme weather events. And frequent spells of heatwaves. This time though something seems to have changed. A climate emergency has led to immediate repercussions outside the...
More »Excess rainfall in Nov-Dec, early heat: Why lime production was hit in Andhra, India's largest producer -G Ram Mohan
-Down to Earth Gujarat, Maharashtra also affected, prices to come down in a fortnight, say experts Lime prices may be burning holes in middle-class pockets, but has that translated into super profits for farmers? Cultivators in Andhra Pradesh, the largest supplier of the citrus, are not exactly a happy lot. Their experience is another case study of how extreme weather can add to farm worries. Lime is cultivated in the state over an area...
More »May heat in March shrivels wheat: Centre to revise procurement norms -Shagun
-Down to Earth The Punjab government April 12 appealed to the central government to allow relaxation in the norms of shrivelled grains without any value cut, since the farmer had already been penalised on account of lower yield The Punjab government said April 13, 2022 that the Centre has agreed to revise its wheat procurement norms for shrivelled grains, a day after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann urged it do to so. Record-breaking...
More »April heat wave to hit mangoes, lychees and livestock -Sandip Das and Nanda Kasabe
-Financial Express The Met department, in its outlook for this month, has predicted hot and dry conditions for central India, a region that includes Gujarat and Maharashtra in the west and Odisha in the east, and is a ‘core heat zone’ in April. If the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD’s) prediction of a severe heat wave in April comes true, the country’s horticultural crops such as mangoes and lychees will be adversely impacted,...
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