2022 India–Pakistan heat wave
The hot season arrived unusually early in the year and extended into April, affecting a large part of India's northwest and Pakistan.[7] During the 2022 food crises, India began taking steps to export more rice and wheat, in part to fill the gaps created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[9] The heat wave occurred mostly during the final weeks of the wheat growing season, killing the plants shortly before harvest.[14] The Hassanabad Bridge in Hunza Valley, Pakistan collapsed after a glacial lake released large amounts of water into a stream caused by the heatwave.[22] Indian scientists said that the major proximate cause was "weak western disturbances – storms originating in the Mediterranean region – which meant little pre-monsoon rainfall in north-western and central India".