More than 3000 deaths… Extreme weather events occurred every day this year in India, this CSE data is scary

New Delhi: Shocking reports have emerged regarding the weather conditions in India. According to this report by the Center for Science and Environment (CSE), in the first nine months of 2024, India faced severe weather for 93 percent of the days. The report shows that out of 274 days, 255 days were affected by disasters like extreme heat, cold, cyclone, rain, floods and landslides in different parts of the country. These disasters took the lives of 3,238 people. More than 2.35 lakh houses were destroyed. Agriculture has also suffered huge losses and crops on more than 32 lakh hectares of land have been destroyed.

This year the weather was more severe

This report of CSE shows that the impact of weather in 2024 was more than in 2023. In the same period last year, the country had witnessed weather conditions on 235 out of 273 days, resulting in 2,923 deaths. Crops on 18.4 lakh hectares of land were destroyed and 80,293 houses were destroyed. In its annual ‘State of Extreme Weather’ report, the Delhi-based organization said that Madhya Pradesh had the maximum number of 176 days when the weather wreaked havoc.

Highest number of deaths in Kerala

Maximum 550 people died in Kerala. Whereas 353 people in Madhya Pradesh and 256 in Assam became victims of the weather. According to the report, maximum 85,806 houses were destroyed in Andhra Pradesh. Maharashtra, which witnessed extreme weather conditions for 142 days, had the highest crop loss in the country, with 60 per cent of crops being destroyed.

MP is second in crop wastage

Madhya Pradesh stood second in this matter. CSE Director General Sunita Narayan says that this trend is not imaginary. This is visible in the growing crisis we are facing today.

What did CSE Director General Sunita Narayan say?

According to Sunita Narayan, this report is not good news, but it is definitely an important warning. he/she has given many important instructions regarding natural disaster and taking necessary steps to reduce it. he/she said that without combating climate change on a meaningful level, today’s challenges will become worse tomorrow.

Mom and dad went out to offer Arghya on Chhath, the only son was sleeping in the house, suddenly a fire broke out and everything ended.

Where did the weather wreak havoc?

If we look at the region wise figures in the report, the weather wreaked havoc in Central India for maximum 218 days. After this comes North-West where such conditions remained for 213 days. Central India also remained at the forefront in terms of deaths where 1,001 people died. This is followed by South Peninsula (762 deaths), East and North-East (741 deaths) and North-West (734 deaths).

The figures of the report will shock you.

However, CSE analysts say that these figures may be less than the reality as complete information about the loss is not available. Especially in case of loss of public property and crops, the data is not available correctly. Referring to the seasonal record of 2024, CSE reported that the month of January was the ninth driest month in India since 1901.

The country recorded the second highest minimum temperature in February this year after 123 years. At the same time, the fourth highest average temperature was recorded in May. July, August and September all recorded their highest minimum temperatures since 1901.