Maximum temperature has followed trends in rainfall

Temperatures deviation from normal and rainfall's deviation from LPA

*Data up to December 21 for maximum temperature and rainfall, up to December 22 for minimum temperature. Normal temperature is the average of temperature for that month in 1981-2010. LPA or Long Period Average of rainfall is the average rainfall for that month in 1961-2010.

Source: IMD gridded temperature and rainfall datasets Get the data