However in keeping with the trend in recent years, they are likely to be warmer than the 40-year ‘normal’ winter temperatures, according to a forecast by the India Meteorological Department. The warming trends are part of a larger pattern stoked by global warming. Last winter was, on an average, about a degree warmer than the historical normal. Experts have previously attributed these to signatures of global warming wherein maximum and minimum temperatures during winters have been rising. “These are signs of global warming and in keeping with trends observed in other parts of the world too,” said K.J.

Source: The Hindu November 30, 2017 18:56 UTC