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.

[11] The heatwave caused a reverse in policy by Indian government, from trying to import to address the crises, to halting exports.

[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".