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 “rar

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