May 19 , 2019
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- The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) has predicted that El Nino Modoki events in India from 2020 May
- increase the frequency of heat waves
- increase the duration of heat waves
- South India and coastal regions are expected to be affected by more heat waves.
- Heat waves in India are usually followed by El Nino events.
- El Nino is warming of Eastern Pacific Ocean.
- But El Nino Modoki event is the Warming up of central Pacific Ocean.
- It is the first time that research has connected future heat waves in India with El Nino Modoki events.
- Additional factors expected to make the heat waves worse are
- Depletion of soil moisture
- transfer of heat from the earth to the atmosphere
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