Record of 146 years: The hottest February ever; Rain reduced by 99%, heat may set record in March

Snowfall in Kufri, rain in Punjab-Chandigarh

This year’s February was the warmest since 1877. This time the heat can set a new record in March as well. The country recorded an average day temperature of 29.54°C in February, 2023, which was 1.74°C above normal (27.8°C). Earlier in 2016, the average day temperature of February was recorded at 29.48 degrees. The average temperature in Punjab in the month of February was 24.86 degrees. According to IMD, this time in the month of February, even 1 mm of rain has not been received.

This time Punjab and Haryana have received 99% less rainfall in February. Western disturbances were made twice in February, but they could not show any effect. Meteorological scientist SC Bhan said that the temperature increased due to less rain, clear sky, formation of anti cyclonic circulation in February. According to the Meteorological Department, heatwave will start coming in central India in March itself. In the hilly, plains, western and eastern states of the north, there will be less heatwave in March, it will increase in April-May.

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… even in February, central India was hotter

{In February, the day’s average maximum temperature of 24.86 °C was recorded 3.40 °C higher in North-West India (Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, West UP), before which it reached 24.55 °C in 1960. {This was the second hottest February in history for central India (Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat). This year, the average maximum temperature of February here was 31.93 degrees. In 2006, it was recorded at 32.13 degrees.

Experts predict heatwave will be less except in central India

Haryana received 99% less rainfall than normal in February, the lowest in 6 years. This time 0.1 mm of rain was recorded in Punjab. The highest rainfall was recorded in 2013 at 137 mm.