<p>New Delhi: India is likely to experience a warmer start to the summer season this year with El Nino conditions predicted to continue through the season, the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/imds-timely-weather-forecasts-helping-save-lives-says-vp-dhankhar-on-departments-150th-anniversary-2849283">India Meteorological Department</a> (IMD) said on Friday.</p><p>More heatwave days than normal are predicted over northeast peninsular India -- Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and north interior Karnataka -- and many parts of Maharashtra and Odisha.</p><p>The country is likely to record above-normal rainfall in March (more than 117 per cent of the long-period average of 29.9 mm).</p>.Bihar likely to witness hotter summers, scantier rainfall in next 2 decades: Pollution board.<p>India is likely to see above-normal maximum and minimum temperatures in most parts of the country in the March to May period, IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said at a press conference.</p><p>Heatwave conditions are not expected over north and central India in March, he said.</p><p>Lok Sabha polls are likely to be held in April-May.</p><p>Mohapatra said that the prevailing El Nino conditions -- the periodic warming of waters in the central Pacific Ocean -- will continue through the summer season and neutral conditions are likely to develop thereafter.</p><p>La Nina conditions -- generally associated with good monsoon rainfall in India -- are likely to set in by the second half of the monsoon season.</p>
<p>New Delhi: India is likely to experience a warmer start to the summer season this year with El Nino conditions predicted to continue through the season, the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/imds-timely-weather-forecasts-helping-save-lives-says-vp-dhankhar-on-departments-150th-anniversary-2849283">India Meteorological Department</a> (IMD) said on Friday.</p><p>More heatwave days than normal are predicted over northeast peninsular India -- Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and north interior Karnataka -- and many parts of Maharashtra and Odisha.</p><p>The country is likely to record above-normal rainfall in March (more than 117 per cent of the long-period average of 29.9 mm).</p>.Bihar likely to witness hotter summers, scantier rainfall in next 2 decades: Pollution board.<p>India is likely to see above-normal maximum and minimum temperatures in most parts of the country in the March to May period, IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said at a press conference.</p><p>Heatwave conditions are not expected over north and central India in March, he said.</p><p>Lok Sabha polls are likely to be held in April-May.</p><p>Mohapatra said that the prevailing El Nino conditions -- the periodic warming of waters in the central Pacific Ocean -- will continue through the summer season and neutral conditions are likely to develop thereafter.</p><p>La Nina conditions -- generally associated with good monsoon rainfall in India -- are likely to set in by the second half of the monsoon season.</p>