India experienced extreme weather events on 99% days in first nine months of 2025: Study

India recorded an extreme weather event nearly every day between January 2025 and September 2025, an annual study released by the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth magazine has said.

The study, titled “Climate India 2025: An Assessment of Extreme Weather Events”, stated that the country recorded extreme weather events on 270 of the 273 days from January 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025.

“This means that for almost 99% of the first nine months of this year, India had an extreme weather event breaking in one or more parts of the country,” it said. These included heat and cold waves, lightning and storms, heavy rain, floods and landslides, it added.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change defines extreme weather events as occurrences that are “rare at a particular place and time of year”. India does not have an official definition of the term.

However, the India Meteorological Department, in its annual “Statement of Climate of India” reports, classifies lightning and thunderstorms, heavy to very heavy, and extremely heavy rainfall, landslides and floods, coldwaves, heatwaves, cyclones, snowfall, dust and sandstorms, squalls, hailstorms and gales as extreme weather events.

The study stated that India experienced extreme weather events every day for seven of the nine months: February, April, May, June, July, August and...

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