Why does delhi have extreme climate

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Investing Bad bet or value buy? Shilpa Medicare investors eye Laurus-like returns, but past capex yet to fire 10 mins read. But there is a lot of work to be done: CEO 17 mins read. Delhi had recorded three heavy rain spells in the monsoon season, and zero in and The city witnessed two such episodes in , zero in , two in , one in , three in , zero in and one in , according to IMD data.

It is both based on data and projections. So, there is no doubt that there are going to be more heavy rainfall days and longer dry spells in the future. No two monsoons are the same. If you go up to 50 years in the past, there used to be drought years and flood years. Climate change is accentuating the natural variability of any weather system in terms of space, time and intensity But individual events cannot be attributed to it entirely," he told PTI.

He, however, said that up to 50 mm rainfall causing flooding in cities like Delhi and Gurgaon cannot be linked to the climate crisis. Mahesh Palawat, vice president of Skymet Weather, a private forecasting agency, said global conditions such as ENSO neutral conditions, lower sea surface temperature in east and central-Pacific ocean, neutral Indian Ocean Dipole and the MaddenJulian oscillation passing through the Indian Ocean were favourable for good rainfall in September.

But climate change has started affecting the overall monsoon pattern," he said. We have been recording short and intense bouts of rain, sometimes around mm rainfall in just 24 hours. In the past, this much precipitation would occur over a period of 10 to 15 days," he said. A highly unusual monsoon season this year has yielded 1, mm rainfall in Delhi so far, the highest in 46 years, and almost double the precipitation recorded last year, according to the IMD.

If we want to reduce air pollution in Delhi, our focus has to be on reducing coal and biomass burning and tackling land degradation and desertification in Delhi-NCR, and in neighbouring states. Unfortunately, in the last 20 years, we have done the opposite.