Explained: Decade ended 2019 hottest ever, last year the second hottest

2020-01-16 20:38
On January 7, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) declared the 2010-19 decade to have been India’s hottest since records began in 1901, with the average temperature 0.36 degrees Celsius higher than the 30-year 1981-2010 average. 2019 was the country’s s…