2015 India’s hottest year ever |
The year 2015 is not only in line to be the hottest on record globally but also in India. The country has lived through its hottest September, October and November this year, reveals India Meteorological Department`s data going back to 1901. The countrywide mean temperature in November this year was 1.25 degrees C above normal, the highest-ever for the month since record keeping began. The mean minimum and maximum temperatures in the country this October were also above normal in varying degrees, which too were the highest rise for the month. "The maximum and mean temperatures in India in September this year were the highest in the last 115 years, 1.25 and 1 degree C, respectively, above normal. Arvind Kumar Srivastava, director of IMD`s National Climate Centre, said in October again, the maximum, minimum and mean temperatures in the country were the highest — at 1.35, 1.09, and 1.22 degrees C, respectively, above normal. For November, the mean temperature in India was higher than normal by 1.25 degrees C, another record for that month. Last month, the World Meteorological Organisation had announced that 2015 was on course to be the hottest year on record globally. These calculations are based on mean temperatures from different places around the world.
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