According to IMD data, the previous lowest minimum temperature recorded in Delhi in June was 18 degrees Celsius on June 17, 2006.
HT reported last week that the Capital was on a weather barrier-breaking streak for at least the last nine months.
In August 2020, the city recorded 236.5mm rainfall, the highest for the month since 2013. In September, it recorded the warmest month in almost two decades. The Capital's average maximum temperature that month was 36.2 degrees Celsius, breaking the previous record of 36.1 degrees Celsius in 2015. The last time Delhi recorded higher average maximum temperature in September was in 2001, when the mercury soared to 36.3 degrees Celsius.
In October, the city broke a 58-year-old record by clocking a mean minimum temperature of just 17.2 degrees Celsius. In November, it broke an even older record, with the month's mean minimum temperature dropping to 10.2 degrees Celsius, a level last seen in 1949.
Comment: Overall, our planet is cooling; and so it begs the question: if warming is involved, is the source of heat geothermal? As is the case in Antarctica? It's also notable that during previous periods of climatological and geologic upheaval - as is undoubtedly afoot during our own era - ocean anoxia has been identified as one factor involved in mass extinction events: