'Cloudburst A Result Of Global Warming'

“The normal average temperature of the Northern Hemisphere is 15 degree Celsius. However, it has now gone up to 15.7 degree Celsius. As a result low pressure areas shifted to North-West which helped monsoon winds reach Leh, which generally gets very low rainfall even compared to dry places in Rajasthan," said Nityanand Singh, a senior scientist at IITM. And the mixing of cool dry continental polar air coming from north with the warm moist tropical monsoon air coming from south resulted in the cloudburst, which caused the flash floods that killed 165 people, he said. Read the full report here.

Source: Siddharth Kelkar, Indian Express, Pune.