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Since May 2024, a severe and long heat wave has impacted India. [1] The heat wave occurred during the Indian dry season, which typically lasts from March to July with peak temperatures in April and May. Rajasthan's Churu recorded 50.5 °C (122.9 °F), which was the highest temperature in India in eight years. [2]
During the Triassic period of 251–199.6 Ma, the Indian subcontinent was the part of a vast supercontinent known as Pangaea.Despite its position within a high-latitude belt at 55–75° S—latitudes now occupied by parts of the Antarctic Peninsula, as opposed to India's current position between 8 and 37° N—India likely experienced a humid temperate climate with warm and frost-free weather ...
Six cities in India's north and eastern regions recorded temperatures above 44 °C (111 °F), while New Delhi recorded 40.4 °C (104.7 °F) on 18 April. [6]The Ministry of Labour issued an advisory to all states and regions to provide workers with adequate drinking water, emergency ice packs and frequent breaks. [12]
While India is no stranger to heat, the past month has been more extreme than most, and experts say that two areas of India have just experienced their hottest April ever. The Director General of ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Eastern India experienced its hottest April on record as a heatwave scorched parts of the country amid a general election, killing at least nine people, and the weather office ...
On Thursday, New Delhi nearly ranked among the world's top 10 when it topped out at 109 degrees (43 C), about 5 degrees shy of the all-time record high temperature for April there, which is 114.1 ...
The 2022 India–Pakistan heat wave was an extreme weather event which resulted in the hottest March in the subcontinent since 1901. The hot season arrived unusually early in the year and extended into April, affecting a large part of India's northwest and Pakistan.
Scientists have compared this year’s weather extremes to “a disaster movie,” and new data is now revealing just how exceptional the global heat has been. Humanity just lived through the ...