♦ The India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed that 2024 was the warmest year on record in the country since 1901. It also noted that the last three months of the 2024 (October-December) together were the warmest on record whereas October 2024, individually, was the warmest month in 123 years.

♦ With an annual mean temperature of 25.75 degrees Celsius, 2024 was 0.65 degree Celsius above the long-term average (1991-2020 period).

♦ The previous warmest year, 2016, had an anomaly of 0.54 degree Celsius. As annual averages go, the difference of 0.11 degree Celsius between the mean temperature in 2016 and 2024 is quite huge.