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Telangana has witnessed 1 utmost upwind lawsuit astir each 5 days connected an mean during the archetypal 9 months of 2025, arsenic reported by a survey from the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
Titled ‘Climate India 2025: An Assessment of Extreme Weather Events January-September’, the survey noted that Telangana has experienced a full of 51 days of utmost upwind events successful 273 days of the year. Overall, India has witnessed utmost upwind events 99% of the clip — 270 retired of 273 days — successful 1 State oregon the other.
The India Meteorology Department (IMD) classifies lightning and storms, dense rains, floods and landslides, vigor waves, acold days oregon acold waves, snowfalls, cloudbursts and cyclones arsenic utmost upwind events.
Himachal Pradesh experienced utmost upwind during astir 80% of the survey period, which is the highest successful immoderate azygous authorities successful the country. Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest fig of fatalities astatine 532, followed by Andhra Pradesh (484 deaths) and Jharkhand (478 deaths).
While Telangana appears comparatively safer with lone 19% days of utmost weather, it is besides protected from bulk of the scourges by dint of its determination and landlocked status.
A full of 23 fatalities and 4,573 hectares of harvest nonaccomplishment person been attributed to the utmost upwind events here. Zero nonaccomplishment reported successful presumption of carnal deaths and damaged houses does not bespeak the existent picture, arsenic predominant floods had resulted successful some losses, but not recorded by the Disaster Management part of the Home Ministry from wherever the information has been collected.
At 22, bulk of the quality deaths recorded successful Telangana were owed to lightning and storm, which occurred connected 22 days successful the 9 period of the survey period. The remaining 1 decease was attributed to dense rains and floods, which again bespeak inaccuracies successful signaling the data, arsenic successful September alone, 3 persons were washed distant successful tempest water, with the assemblage of lone 1 idiosyncratic traced to Valigonda. In April, determination was 1 much decease successful Suraram owed to dense rain.
The fig of utmost upwind days has been connected the emergence for the past 4 years, and for Telangana, the emergence has been implicit 21%. In 2022, the State recorded 42 days of utmost upwind events, which had risen rapidly to 52 the adjacent year, and to 50 the consequent year.
The survey besides analysed the maximum and minimum temperatures successful State capitals during monsoons to recognize however they disrupt the halfway dynamics of the monsoon system, triggering erratic and utmost upwind events ranging from floods to drought.
As per the report, Telangana has experienced higher than the mean maximum temperatures connected 34 of the 121 days studied betwixt June and September, 2025, and 66 days of little than mean maximum temperatures, with the anomalies ranging betwixt 4 and -7 degrees Celsius.
There were 25 days of higher than mean minimum temperatures and 44 days of little than mean minimum temperatures, the displacement ranging betwixt 2 and -3 degrees Celsius.
