WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANISATION

India has experienced a heatwave, with at least 33 people, including election officials, dying of suspected heatstroke in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Odisha. The heatwave is expected to continue until Saturday, as temperatures in northwestern and cent...

The swift announcement that a potentially record-breaking temperature measured this week in India could have been due to a sensor error highlights the challenges in certifying extreme heat. It found an improvised radiation shield led to a demonstrab...

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) stated that the 2023-24 El Nino has peaked as one of the five strongest on record and will continue to impact global climate in the coming months. The UN agency highlighted that above-normal temperatures a...

Global mean temperature breached the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold for the first time, with the warmest January on record. El Nino and human-caused climate change contribute to the exceptional warming. Rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are...

The World Meteorological Organisation confirmed on Tuesday that continental Europe recorded in 2021 its highest ever temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit), and warned that new extremes were expected. "It is possible, indeed likely, ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin and other leaders of the ruling DMK have alleged that IMD has inaccuracies in its forecast. As many as 31 people lost their lives in rain-related incidents in Tenkasi, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin and Kanyakumari distr...

"What I am hoping for is that India will have the courage to own her position and to lead, and she can. The genius that is coming out of India, along with the other Commonwealth countries, could enable us to solve this problem," Commonwealth Secreta...

The WMO, a specialised agency of the United Nations that covers weather, climate and water resources, said it was a "wet decade" over northwest India, Pakistan, China and the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. The occurrence of extreme warm da...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports that 2023 has set climate records, with extreme weather causing devastation worldwide. The data until the end of October indicates that the year was about 1.40 degrees Celsius above the pre-industr...

The report, however, found few signs of the urgently needed progress, in a world still bound to fossil fuel ambitions and thus, called for "a people-centred transformation: putting health at the heart of climate action". The pace and scale of mitiga...

As the World Meteorological Organisation and the European Commission's Copernicus Climate Change Service released official data confirming that July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history, UN Secretary-General Guterres sa...

The ongoing floods in Delhi show how heavy rainfall in the mountain areas can impact cities downstream. Several studies across cities have revealed that urban floods are caused by a combination of bad urban planning and weak urban governance.

The World Meteorological Organization has declared the onset of the first El Nino event in seven years, set to develop through 2023, with the effect of climate and agricultural production raising concerns around global food prices. Local effects cou...

Impax Asset Management Group Plc found that many of its portfolio companies are not aware how extreme heat can hit their valuations.

As per World Meteorological Organisation, El Nino conditions have arrived for the first time in last seven years in the tropical Pacific and is threatening drought in Southeast Asia.

Global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, making 2023-27 the warmest five-year period ever recorded, and there is a 98% chance of at least one in the next five years beating the temperature record set in 2016, ...

The global mean temperature in 2022 was 1.15 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial (1850-1900) average, making it the "fifth or sixth" warmest year on record despite the La Nina conditions, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said in a re...