Ipsita Priyadarsini 
As per the IMS report, In the year of 2024, forecasted as one of hottest year on record list as Severe heat wave conditions are likely to prevail over large swathes of India next week
The Meteorological Department of India has issued a red alert for many places in West Bengal and Odisha, in effect until the month’s end. Additionally, an orange alert has been raised for sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Bihar and interior Karnataka, forecast report stated.
“Heat wave” to turned as “sever heat wave”, according to IMD reported ” conditions are expected to persist over eastern and southern peninsular India in the next five days. A rise in maximum temperatures by 2-3°C is highly probable over East India in the next two days, and over Maharashtra and many parts of southern peninsular India in the subsequent in the next five days.
In the month of april the IMD has forecasted that, has forecasted that, a fresh spell of rainfall along with thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds over the western Himalayan region from April 26 to 29. Similar weather conditions are expected to persist over the plains of northwest India from April 26 to 28, and adjoining Central India from April 26 to 27.
From the report of World Meteorological Organization has recently confirmed that 2023 was the hottest year on record, with the global average near-surface temperature reaching 1.45°C above the pre-industrial baseline.
“The global mean near-surface temperature in 2023 was 1.45 ± 0.12 °C above the pre-industrial 1850–1900 average. 2023 was the warmest year in the 174-year observational record. This shattered the record of the previous warmest years, 2016 at 1.29 ± 0.12 °C above the 1850–1900 average and 2020 at 1.27±0.13 °C,” the WMO said in March this year.
