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Weather Bee | How long before long-term warming breaches 1.5°C threshold?

The inevitable breach of the 1.5°C warming threshold is accelerated by decreased air pollution, increasing Earth's energy imbalance.

The Paris Agreement goal is tied to long-term warming because individual years can breach the 1.5°C threshold because of short-term factors. (AP)

Environment News

Published on Feb 13, 2025 08:05 PM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: How Kejriwal’s New Delhi loss puts AAP’s debacle in perspective

In many ways, Kejriwal’s defeat, only puts the AAP’s larger predicament in perspective

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal addresses a press conference, in this file photo.

Editors Pick

Updated on Feb 10, 2025 08:58 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha, Roshan Kishore

Four crucial factors that decided Capital verdict in favour of BJP

Out of power since 1998 in Delhi, the BJP has ended AAP's 11-year rule in the Capital.

BJP national president J P Nadda (left) and BJP Lok Sabha MP Manoj Tiwari congratulate each other after the party won the Delhi assembly elections on Saturday. (Ajay Agarwal/HT Photo)

India News

Updated on Feb 09, 2025 01:26 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: Four things which will decide Delhi results

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Will the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) come to power for the third consecutive time in the Union territory, or will the BJP dislodge AAP?(HT Photo/Sanjeev Verma)

Editors Pick

Updated on Feb 07, 2025 06:45 PM IST

ByAbhishek Jha, Roshan Kishore, New Delhi

Manufacturing: The dark underbelly of Delhi’s economy

70 years ago, industrial areas were envisioned to usher Delhi into an age of egalitarian growth. But today, this remains a distant dream

Mayapuri industrial area in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

India News

Published on Feb 04, 2025 05:08 AM IST

ByParas Singh, Abhishek Jha, Roshan Kishore

Weather Bee | January 2025 all set to be the warmest January month on record

January 2025 is on track to be the hottest January on record, with an average temperature increase of 1.75°C above pre-industrial levels

A couple take a walk at sunrise near the icy Oak Street Beach along the shore of Lake Michigan Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Chicago (AP/Kiichiro Sato)

Environment News

Updated on Feb 01, 2025 06:35 PM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

ASER report 2024: How rural India fared in school education

The findings of this report are crucial because it is only the second such report after the Covid-19 pandemic, the last one being 2022.

The 14th ASER report is based on a 2024 survey conducted in 17,997 villages across 605 rural districts. (HT File)

India News

Updated on Jan 29, 2025 11:23 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha, New Delhi

The power of Delhi’s Purvanchali vote

Behind the story of the Burari seat lies the tale of evolution of the Purvanchali voter base – how a voter bloc went from outsiders to leaders

Delhi

Updated on Feb 09, 2025 01:51 AM IST

ByRoshan Kishore, Sanjeev K Jha, Nishant Ranjan, Abhishek Jha, Saurya Sengupta

Weather Bee | Why have the LA fires attracted attention?

The wildfires in Los Angeles, while not the largest in California history, attract attention due to the county's high population density and financial stakes.

A fire fighting helicopter drops water as the Palisades fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood and Encino, California, on January 11, 2025. The Palisades Fire, the largest of the Los Angeles fires, spread toward previously untouched neighborhoods January 11, forcing new evacuations and dimming hopes that the disaster was coming under control. Across the city, at least 16 people have died as multiple fires have ripped through residential areas since January 7, razing thousands of homes in destruction that US President Joe Biden likened to a

Environment News

Published on Jan 25, 2025 08:14 PM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: A peripheral shift in Delhi politics

Delhi’s changing demographics, and the role of migration and economic transformation in this process is a matter of interest for ethnographers and demographers.

Delhi

Published on Jan 23, 2025 11:11 AM IST

ByRoshan Kishore, Abhishek Jha, Nishant Ranjan

India’s cooler months warming faster: Data

Rising temperatures across India are blurring seasonal distinctions, with traditionally cooler months warming at a faster rate than warmer months over the past century

The trend comes against the backdrop of the climate crisis manifesting ever more clearly globally, with 2024 marking India’s –– and the world’s –– warmest year (HT Photo)

India News

Updated on Jan 18, 2025 07:18 AM IST

ByJayashree Nandi, Abhishek Jha, New Delhi

Weather Bee | Why is the global temperature high despite La Nina's arrival?

Since the La Nina is expected to be weak and short-lived, its influence may be even more insignificant than in recent years.

Snow covers a rock as drifting broken sea ice, floats on the surface, off the extreme western point of Replot Island, in Kvarken archipelago, near Bjorkoby, in the northern part of the Baltic Sea on January 15, 2025. Due to a mild winter and temperatures above zero degrees centigrade, the open sea has not frozen. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP)(AFP)

Environment News

Published on Jan 17, 2025 08:17 PM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: Rain records tumble in face of climate crisis

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Light rainfall in parts of Delhi as temperatures drop on a cold winter morning in January 2025. (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo)

Editors Pick

Updated on Jan 13, 2025 09:46 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: Five datasets show 1.5°C breach in 2024

All these datasets except one show that 2024 was warmer than the pre-industrial baseline by more than 1.5°C.

Editors Pick

Updated on Jan 11, 2025 10:48 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: What's fanning the wildfires in California?

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A building fully engulfed in flames in a wildfire in Altadena area of Los Angeles county, California on January 8.(AFP)

Editors Pick

Published on Jan 09, 2025 09:19 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Weather Bee | 2024 warming is 1.6°C in ERA5 data

The daily ERA5 data also shows that 2024 has had 274 days when warming relative to the pre-industrial average was at least 1.50°C

Daily ERA5 data up to December 31 shows that 2024 is 1.599°C warmer than the pre-industrial average in this data (AFP File Photo/Representative)

India News

Updated on Jan 10, 2025 01:37 PM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: As 2025 begins, a look at India’s demographics

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Editors Pick

Updated on Jan 01, 2025 09:13 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: Sea surface mercury set for record highs

This is the last of a two-part data journalism series which explains why 2024 is the warmest year for the planet.

For representational purposes only. (HT File)

Editors Pick

Updated on Dec 30, 2024 08:48 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Average Indian’s monthly spend rises, shows survey

The National Statistics Office’s Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) showed poorer classes increased spending at a faster rate while expenditure by the richest declined even in nominal terms, leading to reduced consumption inequality.

India News

Updated on Dec 28, 2024 07:38 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha, New Delhi

Number Theory: Big public donations are just a fraction of political funding

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Supporters of the BJP at an election rally. (AP Photo)(AP)

Editors Pick

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 10:56 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: 2024 — The year Earth breached the 1.5°C threshold

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Street artists paint a mural on climate change. (AFP File Photo)

Editors Pick

Published on Dec 25, 2024 08:37 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: Celebrating Md Rafi's Bollywood discography

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Legendary singer Mohammed Rafi. (HT File Photo)

Editors Pick

Published on Dec 24, 2024 08:00 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: How has India done in ensuring social and economic justice?

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A 125-ft tall Ambedkar statue in Vijayawada. (HT Photo)

Editors Pick

Updated on Dec 23, 2024 10:44 AM IST

ByRoshan Kishore, Abhishek Jha, Nishant Ranjan

Weather Bee: Third consecutive year of record low snow pack in December

The impact of deficit precipitation is that the snow pack in India’s hilly regions in the north has reached a new low for this part of December.

Houses covered in snow after the plains of Kashmir received the season's first snowfall after a long dry spell on December 12. (PTI Photo)

Environment News

Published on Dec 20, 2024 05:35 PM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: How December cooled down in the second week

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People sit around a bonfire to beat the cold in Noida on December 15, 2024. (Sunil Ghosh/ HT Photo)

Editors Pick

Published on Dec 16, 2024 08:18 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Weather Bee: December rain a big reason for turnaround in northeast monsoon

A big reason for the surplus rain in the season is the surplus recorded in December because of Cyclone Fengal

The season is made up of the twin disasters of a dry November and a rainy December (AFP)

Editors Pick

Published on Dec 14, 2024 08:52 PM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Delhi mercury below 5°C in earliest dip since 1987

Delhi's Safdarjung observatory recorded a minimum temperature of 4.9°C, marking the earliest cold wave day since 1987, with more cold expected.

India News

Updated on Dec 12, 2024 04:29 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha, Jasjeev Gandhiok, New Delhi

Number Theory: Why November went from being abnormally hot to abnormally cold

The average maximum temperature for India for the month (up to November 28) was 28.90°C, only 0.14°C warmer than the 1981-2010 average for this period.

A man sits next to a bonfire on a cold winter morning in Noida on November 21. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times)

Editors Pick

Updated on Dec 02, 2024 09:45 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Number Theory: What explains BJP’s massive victory in Maharashtra?

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(From left) Devendra Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar celebrate their victory in the Maharashtra assembly elections.(HT Photo)

Editors Pick

Published on Nov 28, 2024 09:46 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha, Roshan Kishore

Number Theory: How Congress lost the plot and slumped to its lowest Maha tally

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Congress’s drubbing in Maharashtra has raised questions about its standing to head the national opposition alliance. (HT Photo)

Editors Pick

Published on Nov 26, 2024 09:52 AM IST

ByRoshan Kishore, Abhishek Jha, Nishant Ranjan

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The inevitable breach of the 1.5°C warming threshold is accelerated by decreased air pollution, increasing Earth's energy imbalance.

In many ways, Kejriwal’s defeat, only puts the AAP’s larger predicament in perspective

Out of power since 1998 in Delhi, the BJP has ended AAP's 11-year rule in the Capital.

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70 years ago, industrial areas were envisioned to usher Delhi into an age of egalitarian growth. But today, this remains a distant dream

January 2025 is on track to be the hottest January on record, with an average temperature increase of 1.75°C above pre-industrial levels

The findings of this report are crucial because it is only the second such report after the Covid-19 pandemic, the last one being 2022.

Behind the story of the Burari seat lies the tale of evolution of the Purvanchali voter base – how a voter bloc went from outsiders to leaders

The wildfires in Los Angeles, while not the largest in California history, attract attention due to the county's high population density and financial stakes.

Delhi’s changing demographics, and the role of migration and economic transformation in this process is a matter of interest for ethnographers and demographers.

Rising temperatures across India are blurring seasonal distinctions, with traditionally cooler months warming at a faster rate than warmer months over the past century

Since the La Nina is expected to be weak and short-lived, its influence may be even more insignificant than in recent years.

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All these datasets except one show that 2024 was warmer than the pre-industrial baseline by more than 1.5°C.

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The daily ERA5 data also shows that 2024 has had 274 days when warming relative to the pre-industrial average was at least 1.50°C

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This is the last of a two-part data journalism series which explains why 2024 is the warmest year for the planet.

The National Statistics Office’s Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) showed poorer classes increased spending at a faster rate while expenditure by the richest declined even in nominal terms, leading to reduced consumption inequality.

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The impact of deficit precipitation is that the snow pack in India’s hilly regions in the north has reached a new low for this part of December.

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A big reason for the surplus rain in the season is the surplus recorded in December because of Cyclone Fengal

Delhi's Safdarjung observatory recorded a minimum temperature of 4.9°C, marking the earliest cold wave day since 1987, with more cold expected.

The average maximum temperature for India for the month (up to November 28) was 28.90°C, only 0.14°C warmer than the 1981-2010 average for this period.

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