IMD Forecasts Severe Winter For India; Russia Suffers -40.1C; Britain Importing Record Amounts Of Electricity; + The Lancet's Climate Health Falsehoods

Asia, in particular, is bracing for a harsh winter of 2024-25.

IMD Forecasts Severe Winter For India

India is set for an intensely frigid winter, driven by La Niña, which cools Pacific waters and often brings colder, wetter winters to Asia.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), northern and central India can expect one of the coldest winters in years, with temperatures predicted to plunge significantly.

Northern states like Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jammu & Kashmir are forecast extreme winter conditions, i.e. sustained cold spells and heavy snowfall. Colder-than-average nights have already set in here, as they have across Central India.

Overnight temps across 25 cities have dipped below 20C (68F), in Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, and Jabalpur—to name four. While looking ahead, historical lows, such as Bhopal’s 6.1C (43F) and Gwalior’s 3C (37.4F), will be threatened in the coming weeks and months as winter draws in proper, so reads a recent IMD report.

With La Niña's influence strengthening, Indian's have been told to brace for an unusually cold winter. This is the case across much of Asia and all, with authorities in Russia, Mongolia, and China also warning their people of a harsh winter to come.

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Russia Suffers -40.1C

Already, Russia is feeling the chill—particularly Central and Eastern parts.

The Siberian town of Verkhoyansk logged -40.1C (-40.2F) on November 3, Russia's first -40C reading of the season—unusually early (typically coming in late-November).

Throughout October, Siberia (all 5,207,900 sq mi of it) has been unseasonably cold with thermometers consistently 12C below the norm. While the region is of course known for its severe winters, -40C in early Nov marks a particularly early onset. As winter deepens, the stage is set for Siberia to break long-standing low temperature records.

Britain Importing Record Amounts Of Electricity

Fresh from congratulating themselves on shutting down the last coal-fired power plant, the British government now finds itself scrambling to keep the lights on by importing record levels of electricity from Europe.