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Climate change isn't only new record high temperatures. It's also, as described in the article, temperatures consistently being higher than is regular for this

Climate change isn't only new record high temperatures. It's also, as described in the article, temperatures consistently being higher than is regular for this time of the year.

Bombthecat 5y ago
It's the new normal now. People already think that the avarage temperature in the last 3 years was always like that
refurb 5y ago
How do you tell "climate change" heat waves from "non-climate change" heat waves? I mean "heat waves" are not some recent phenomenon. I mean, any farmer can tell you some growing seasons are really warm, others cold, some very dry and others very wet. No two seasons are the same.
- Etheryte 5y ago
  This is more or less covered in the article as well: > Meteorologists from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) found that March 2022 was the hottest March for India as a whole since 1901, with average highs jumping to a staggering 3.35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.86 degrees Celsius) above the climatological average. Heat waves happen, and have happened before, but if they become more common, longer, hotter on average etc you can see this in the statistics.
  - refurb 5y ago
    If the last time this happened was 1901 (but 1901 was hotter), it doesn't sound "more common"? It's literally more than 100 years since the last time this level of heat occurred. Sounds similar to 100-year floods?
    - atq2119 5y ago
      My understanding is that 1901 wasn't particularly hot. They mention 1901 because that's when systematic collection of weather data began.
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      - refurb 5y ago
        "Meteorologists from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) found that March 2022 was the hottest March for India as a whole since 1901".
        Etheryte 5y ago
        As the other comment already pointed out, the study linked in the article [0] makes it clear that it's not the case that 1901 was the hottest March, but instead 1901 is the year that data gathering began. The warmest March on record was 2010. > Characteristics of Average maximum, minimum and mean temperature for the country as a whole and over four homogenous region during March 2022 and its comparison since 1901 > [...] > The country averaged monthly mean temperatures of 26.67ºC is the second warmest since 1901 (The warmest year on record was 2010 (26.671 ºC)). [0] https://internal.imd.gov.in/press_release/20220402_pr_1551.pdf https://internal.imd.gov.in/press_release/20220402_pr_1551.p...
        refurb 5y ago
        By 1 thousandth of a degree C?
        Etheryte 5y ago
        Your observation is correct that for all practical intents and purposes, this March was as hot as the hottest March ever recorded since bookkeeping began in 1901.
- thinkingemote 5y ago
  You cannot tell the difference between types of events. However the science says that the frequency increases. That is what is actually the thing that climate change models say: more exteme weather events. Climate != Weather But climate shapes weather.

Climate change isn't only new record high temperatures. It's also, as described in the article, temperatures consistently being higher than is regular for this time of the year.

Bombthecat 5y ago

It's the new normal now. People already think that the avarage temperature in the last 3 years was always like that

refurb 5y ago

How do you tell "climate change" heat waves from "non-climate change" heat waves? I mean "heat waves" are not some recent phenomenon. I mean, any farmer can tell you some growing seasons are really warm, others cold, some very dry and others very wet. No two seasons are the same.

Etheryte 5y ago
This is more or less covered in the article as well: > Meteorologists from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) found that March 2022 was the hottest March for India as a whole since 1901, with average highs jumping to a staggering 3.35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.86 degrees Celsius) above the climatological average. Heat waves happen, and have happened before, but if they become more common, longer, hotter on average etc you can see this in the statistics.
- refurb 5y ago
  If the last time this happened was 1901 (but 1901 was hotter), it doesn't sound "more common"? It's literally more than 100 years since the last time this level of heat occurred. Sounds similar to 100-year floods?
  - atq2119 5y ago
    My understanding is that 1901 wasn't particularly hot. They mention 1901 because that's when systematic collection of weather data began.
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    - refurb 5y ago
      "Meteorologists from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) found that March 2022 was the hottest March for India as a whole since 1901".
      - Etheryte 5y ago
        As the other comment already pointed out, the study linked in the article [0] makes it clear that it's not the case that 1901 was the hottest March, but instead 1901 is the year that data gathering began. The warmest March on record was 2010. > Characteristics of Average maximum, minimum and mean temperature for the country as a whole and over four homogenous region during March 2022 and its comparison since 1901 > [...] > The country averaged monthly mean temperatures of 26.67ºC is the second warmest since 1901 (The warmest year on record was 2010 (26.671 ºC)). [0] https://internal.imd.gov.in/press_release/20220402_pr_1551.pdf https://internal.imd.gov.in/press_release/20220402_pr_1551.p...
        refurb 5y ago
        By 1 thousandth of a degree C?
        Etheryte 5y ago
        Your observation is correct that for all practical intents and purposes, this March was as hot as the hottest March ever recorded since bookkeeping began in 1901.
thinkingemote 5y ago
You cannot tell the difference between types of events. However the science says that the frequency increases. That is what is actually the thing that climate change models say: more exteme weather events. Climate != Weather But climate shapes weather.