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New Delhi : Due to the increasing temperature of the earth, the number of heat wave affected states in the country has increased by 35 percent in the last 10 years and their number has reached 23, while the number of heat wave days has increased by four times on an average at the national level.
This information has come out in the joint report of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and National Center for Disease Control (NCDC).
According to the report, the possibility of initial heat wave in the year 2022 was 30 times higher. This year was the fifth hottest, while 2023 has been the hottest year so far.
Between 2015 and 2024, the number of states affected by extreme heat in the country has increased from 17 to 23. The names of Arunachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir and Uttarakhand have been included in this list of states, where like the plain states, life is being greatly affected due to the scorching heat and hot winds.
The report clearly states that this heat trend proves the effects of climate change. Before 2014, coastal states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala and hilly states like Himachal and Arunachal Pradesh were not affected by heat waves, but in the last few years, especially after the Corona epidemic, there has been a rapid change in weather between 2021 and 2023. .
Center for Science and Environment (CSE) recently reported that there will be 329 days of heat wave in 2023 which was 203 days in 2022. At the same time, between 2014 and 2023, the average number of heat-affected days at the national level has increased from 7.4 to 32.2 days.
