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This is a list of serious heat waves in India. Year Duration Max. temperature Deaths Ref 1956: 50.6 °C (123.1 °F) [1] 1995: June: 45.5 °C (113.9 °F) >350 [2] 1998:
Heat health impacts in India are serious. Estimates suggest that there have been over 22,000 heat-related fatalities in India since 1992. Due to the El Niño effect, 2015 is considered the hottest year ever, the country witnessed the fifth deadliest heatwave in history. The other nine warmest years on record are 2009, 2010, 2003, 2002, 2014 ...
2024 Indian heat wave - Since May 2024, the longest heat wave has occurred in India and Pakistan with a new record temperature for India's capital New Delhi of 49 °C (120 °F) (an even higher record of 53 °C (127 °F) had initially been reported in New Delhi on May 29 but was later found to be attributable to a faulty sensor), and ...
It was one of the hottest and longest heat waves in the subcontinent since the two countries began recording weather reports. The highest temperatures occurred in Churu, Rajasthan, reaching up to 50.8 °C (123.4 °F), [5] a near record high in India, missing the record of 51.0 °C (123.8 °F) set in 2016 by a fraction of a degree. [6]
Indian heat wave can refer to a number of major heat waves that have occurred in India: 2002 Indian heat wave, major heat wave concentrated in Andhra Pradesh; 2015 Indian heat wave, 2015 heat wave which impacted most of the country; 2016 Indian heat wave, a heat wave in India impacting 330 million people; 2019 heat wave in India and Pakistan ...
The capital New Delhi broke its all-time record with a high of 48 degrees Celsius. [47] In India, exposure to heat waves is said to increase by 8 times between 2021 and 2050, and by 300% by the end of this century. The number of Indians exposed to heat waves increased by 200% from 2010 to 2016. Heat waves also affect farm labour productivity.
Highest dew point temperature: A dew point of 35 °C (95 °F) — while the temperature was 42 °C (108 °F) — was observed at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, at 3:00 p.m. on 8 July 2003. [199] Highest heat index: In the observation above at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the heat index ("feels like" temperature) was 81.1 °C (178.0 °F). [199]
In the recent past, the most severe period of hot weather occurred in 1995, when 1,677 people died due to a series of heatwaves. 793 people died in 2011 while 1,247 died in 2012 due to heat related causes. In 2013, 1,216 people died due to the heat. [3] With over 2,500 deaths, the heat wave has proven to be the most deadly since 1979. [12]