Thunderstorms and lightning are the deadliest natural disasters in the Indian subcontinent. A better understanding of the regional and seasonal features of thunderstorm occurrences can provide valuable information on mitigating hazards in the region. The study demonstrated an improved method of understanding thunderstorm occurrences and thunder day (TD), an essential climate variable over the Indian region, using the total lig...

The ~75 ka Young Toba super‐eruption was a catastrophic extreme event that spewed vast quantities of volcanic ash and aerosols and is argued to have caused a drastic volcanic winter, climatic upheaval, and a human genetic bottleneck. The global and regional impacts of the eruption on climate dynamics and past hominin populations are strongly contested due to conflicting global climatic records and archeological datasets. The I...