Heatwave

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated that this February was the warmest in 122 years since 1901. India's meteorological department has forecast a March-May heatwave across most of the country after record-high temperatures in February.

The weather conditions have changed drastically these days. Experts say the spring and summer season in India is likely to be dry and hot this year and have instructed the country to be prepared for El Nino.

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is no longer plausible, as shown in a new pivotal study published by the Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climate Change and Society" (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg. 

The return of the El Niño phenomenon this year would cause an increase in global temperatures "out of the normal" and unprecedented heat waves, warn a group of scientists.

A global shift to an El Niño weather pattern later this year could pave the way for the world to exceed 1.5C of warming for the first time in 2024, according to the UK Met Office.

2022 was a year of climatic extremes, such as droughts or floods, record temperatures and concentrations of greenhouse gases, according to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)

A new study by the Oxford School of Geography said that more than 90% of the world's population is projected to face increased risks due to the combined impacts of extreme heat and drought.

Some 10 million hectares of forests are destroyed each year, an area larger than the size of Portugal and equivalent to that of Iceland, according to the UN, which points to this "alarming" global deforestation,

2022 was confirmed as the hottest ever recorded in the United Kingdom, with the average annual temperature breaking the ten-degree barrier for the first time. 

This beginning of the year seems to indicate that it will be similar to 2022, recorded as the warmest year in history and one of the driest. And it is that these first days of January we are witnessing unusual temperatures in the whole of Europe.