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Natural disasters are catastrophic events with atmospheric, geological, and hydro logical origins (e.g., droughts, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, landslides) that can cause fatalities, property damage and social environmental disruption. Temperatures in three Indian cities Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi in the last five decades have been a steady rise. This rise in temperatures has led to a higher incidences of natural disasters storms, floods and droughts which have increased from 32 in the 1960s to 110 in the current decade.