Double trouble in Bengaluru: Water crisis and 5-year high temperatures in addition

Bengaluru, often known as the IT metropolis, broke all prior five-year records on Friday with its highest March temperature of 36.4 degrees Celsius. As a result, the temperature in March was the fourth highest in the preceding fifteen years and the third highest in the last ten years. 

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The El Nino effect, which warms the Pacific Ocean, and human-caused global warming have been connected by meteorologists to this intense heat wave.

According to A Prasad, a physicist working for the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, El Nino's effect caused extremely dry weather in the city in March. The temperature was considerably higher on Saturday. As to media estimates, the temperature in Bengaluru increased slightly from 36.6 degrees Celsius on Friday to 37 degrees Celsius on Saturday, but it was still rising throughout March. There has never been a March temperature this high in the preceding five years.

The IMD expressed concerns about Karnataka

Anticipating temperatures above average for the whole state, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert heat wave warning for the north-internal region of Karnataka.

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The India Meteorological Department reports that there is a strong likelihood of heat waves in numerous regions of Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, and North Interior Karnataka from April 2 to April 4; in Rayalaseema from April 1 to April 4; and in Telangana on April 1 and 2, 2024.

Furthermore, it is possible that some areas of Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana, Marathwada, and Odisha will see warmer-than-average overnight temperatures on March 31 and April 1, respectively, and on April 2 and 4.

On March 31, 2024, hot and humid conditions are predicted for Rayalaseema, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Yanam, Mahe, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and Karaikal; Odisha would be particularly affected between April 2 and April 4, 2024. In some parts of Marathwada, temperatures that were above the 95th percentile the previous day are expected to remain that way until April 4th in those states; in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, East Madhya Pradesh, and Vidarbha, they will start on April 4th, and in north Tamil Nadu, they will start on April 3rd, 2024.starting in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on April 3, 2024.