Last year, in a chain of powerful storms, three of them – Gati, Nivar and Burevi – formed within a fortnight, triggering intense precipitation (File photo)
PANAJI: A rise in catastrophic extreme weather events has already proved that global warming and climate change is for real. With a record eight cyclones ripping through India in 2019, weather experts realised the dimension of future doom. The year 2020 only underlined this danger in the future.
If 2019 spawned a record chain of eight cyclones — five in the earlier quiet Arabian Sea and three in the usually tempestuous Bay of Bengal — the year 2020 produced five. Two of them, Gati and Nivar, were very severe cyclonic storms and one, Amphan was even more intense, a super cyclone. Only Burevi was of lesser intensity. It was a cyclonic storm that died down within a few days.