{"id":29449,"date":"2025-01-16T09:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T04:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29449"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:40:28","slug":"hydroclimate-whiplash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hydroclimate-whiplash\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydroclimate whiplash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Hydroclimate Whiplash:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a rare meteorological condition wherein an <strong>extremely wet season<\/strong> is <strong>succeeded by<\/strong> an <strong>extremely dry season.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How does it occurs?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s kind of this paradox that as the <strong>atmosphere gets warmer<\/strong>, both the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere can increase, and the deficit of water vapour in the atmosphere can also increase exponentially.<\/li>\n<li>Consequently, as the atmosphere warms, it is able to hold much more water \u2013 for a longer period \u2013 before it is eventually released as precipitation.<\/li>\n<li>It is this relationship <strong>between global warming<\/strong> and the atmosphere which leads to the <strong>extended periods of dry spells<\/strong> and more <strong>intense rainfall<\/strong> when it eventually occurs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impacts<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Increases the number of <strong>droughts and floods.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Fires created by the dry condition exacerbate respiratory and cardiovascular diseases through their polluting smoke.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human health:<\/strong> Flooding creates conditions for waterborne illnesses such as cholera, leptospirosis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Such \u2018hydroclimate whiplash\u2019 conditions have increased by 31-66 per cent in three-month periods (sub-seasonal) and by 8-31 per cent in 12-month periods (inter-annual) across the world since the middle of the 20th century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is a hydroclimate?<\/h3>\n<p>Hydroclimate is the scientific field that brings together hydrology and climate, including the impacts that water and its processes have on Earth&#8217;s climate, and the impacts of climate patterns and change on the global hydrological (or water) cycle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/natural-disasters\/what-started-the-la-wildfires-warming-fuelled-hydroclimate-whiplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydroclimate whiplash is a rare meteorological condition wherein an extremely wet season is succeeded by an extremely dry season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}