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The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
According to the BBC News, "Heatwaves are defined as periods of abnormally high temperatures and usually occur between March and June in India. May is the country's hottest month, with an average maximum temperature of 41 o C (104 o F) in Delhi. Longer, more severe heatwaves are becoming increasingly frequent globally.
An extreme weather warning was issued for southern areas for overnight snowfall which could bring accumulations from 25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 in). [28] BBC Weather and the Met Office also warned that temperatures in the Highlands of Scotland could drop to −20 °C (−4 °F) later in the week.
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The IPCC calculates that it would expose 13–94 million people to flooding, with about 60% of this total in South Asia. A sea-level rise of 100 cm would inundate 5,763 cubic km of India's landmass. [25] It will severely affect populations in megacities like Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai due to land submergence and extreme weather events. [26]
Anna Modayil Mani was born in 1918 at Peermade, then Travancore, now Kerala, India to a Syrian Christian family. [5] Her father was a civil engineer. [1] She was the seventh of eight children in her family, and a voracious reader. [1]
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. It is one of the most popular news websites, [ 3 ] with 1.2 billion website visits in April 2021, [ 4 ] as well as being used by 60% of the UK's internet users for news.
India (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, Maharashtra) Part of the 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season The 2020 Hyderabad floods were a series of floods associated with Deep Depression BOB 02 that caused extensive damage and loss of life as a result of flash flooding in Hyderabad , India in October 2020.