Dr. Anil Joshi’s Column – The Contradictory Behavior of the Weather Gives Worrying Signals | Dr. Anil Joshi’s column: Contradictory behavior of weather gives a worrying indication

Dr. Anil Joshi Padmashree honored environmentalist

Today, how to take the way the weather is dodging in the world and changing forms like ecosystem? On the one hand, this year was hot for the world, while everything appeared normal in its country. Not only this, the weather pattern also baffled ecological understanding. In some countries this year, the heat again maintained the same situation, as in the last years. And everything else was level below normal.

There have been many reasons behind this, especially in the Northern Hemisphere West-Central Asia, Northeast Russia and Western Antarctica recorded excessive heat, while there was relatively coolness from Hudson Bay to Northern Australia and East Antarctica. India was also included in these unequal behavior areas.

This type of weather behavior indicates many things. Now we also have many unusual news related to the country. Many parts of India received 20-40 percent more rainfall than normal during May and the temperature dropped from 4 to 6 degrees.

Cities which are usually known for higher temperatures- such as Delhi, Lucknow, Patna- The temperature in the summer there was below 35 degrees Celsius. The important news in the world was that incidents of melting snow in Greenland and Iceland were revealed.

Scientists at the World Weather Atribution Group reported that the temperature there rose to 3 degrees, causing huge ice melts. The reason for this is human activities, it was also seen that the temperature in many other areas was similar to the trend of previous years.

The month of May was found to be the hottest month worldwide. The Climate Change Service report reported that the global surface temperature in May recorded 1.4 degrees higher than the industrial age of 1850–1900.

However, the temperature of May was below normal in areas like India, Alaska, South Africa and East Asia. This type of contradictory weather behavior makes it clear that there is a big mess in the climate system.

In 2025, the average surface temperature was recorded at 15.79 ° C, which was 0.5 degrees higher than in 1991–2020. It was just 0.12 degrees lower than the hottest May of 2020–2024. It is clear from this that there is a slight drop in global temperature, but the abnormal behavior of the weather remains.

This increase is mainly the result of emissions caused by burning of fossil fuels. The report stated that 21 out of the last 22 months have been such that the global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Earlier, March, April and February were also included in the hottest months of history.

February 2025 in India was the hottest in the last 125 years. But the months of May and June remained relatively cold due to La-Nina influence. During this time the month of January proved to be the hottest month of India and the world.

It is natural to be shocked to see all these incidents. India’s weather was relatively less hot in 2025. The country did not suffer any serious heat -like situation this time. The maximum temperature was around 35 degrees. One of the main reasons for this was that from time to time, the weather changed and rained. This year Western disturbance played an important role.

But the most unusual thing was that this time the monsoon came ahead of time. The monsoon is generally activated by July, but this time it became active quickly due to rising sea surface temperature.

The continuous cold of the sea is also regular. This means that now the rain can be seen in some form or the other throughout the year. Where there was never any rain before, such as rainfall is also likely to rain in dry areas like Rajasthan, and where excessive rainfall- such as Northeast India, could show adverse effects.

(These are the author’s own views)