1,500 days, and an alarm for new climate

SEASONS ARE the compass that guide humans to survive and thrive as a society. What happens if seasons lose their distinct character and predictable rhythm? This is no longer a theoretical question. The Earth is entering a new climate regime, its atmosphere now saturated with greenhouse gases at levels without precedent in human history. And the earliest sign of this shift is the near-dissolution of familiar seasons; all merging and dissipating like the pupa inside the chrysalis, but, not to give birth to that mesmerising butterfly. This metamorphosis is manifest in the blizzard of weather events, extreme in severity and unseasonal by nature and geography.

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Since 2022, the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth (CSE-DTE) have tracked extreme weather in India to understand this meteorological upheaval. Every day, through September 30 this year, the team has scoured bulletins from the India Meteorological Department, the disaster management division of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, state agencies and newspapers nationwide. These nearly 1,500 days of monitoring (excluding October-December 2025), has created a new atlas of India's weather disasters. It reveals a weather/climate profile, detached from traditional seasons and geographical tag of weather events.