TNPSC Thervupettagam

2022 - 5th warmest year

January 10 , 2023 471 days 421 0
  • The India Meteorological Department said that the year 2022 was the fifth warmest for India since 1901.
  • The annual mean land surface air temperature was 0.51 degrees Celsius above the long-term average.
  • Long-term average is the mean temperature for the 1981-2010 period.
  • This was lower than the highest warming observed in India in 2016.
  • In 2016, the average temperature was 0.71 degrees Celsius.
  • Rainfall over the country in 2022 as a whole was 108 per cent of its Long Period Average value based on the period 1971-2020.

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