Heat wave breaks monthly records in India and continues to build

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

For the second month in a row, temperatures in India and Pakistan are abnormally high because of a string of strong and prolonged heat waves — and now another surge is building.

Temperatures have already soared to dangerously high levels. They topped 110 degrees in the Indian capital of Delhi on Thursday and Friday, where pavement melted amid the heat, while several cities broke April records.

The Times of India reported Delhi clinched its second hottest April in 72 years Friday with an average high temperature of 104 degrees (40.2 Celsius).

The city of Nawabshah in Pakistan hit 117.5 degrees (47.5 degrees Celsius) Thursday — the hottest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere this year so far.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/04/28/india-pakistan-heat-wave-records/

[Richard D]

1. Sounds like the beginning of

KSR's Ministry for the Future.

[raccoon]

6. Great minds think alike! Nt

[Warpy]

2. This is their midsummer

Monsoon rains generally start in June. What makes this kind of heat hellish is the high humidity. I think India will be announcing heat related deaths. I just hope their monsoons don't fizzle.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

3. 2.88 Gt of CO2 out of India last year. n/t

[Javaman]

4. what's the relative humidity there?

100%?

then you are getting into very scary territory of wet bulb deaths.

[Martin68]

5. Was once in Delhi with 112 degrees. The sun was dark orange through the haze of pollution. Had to

close the window on the un-air-conditioned taxi because the wind felt like a blast furnace.

[Emile]

7. Wow, wondering what it is going to be like

here this summer.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. That's really bad.. India has so many poor people

Living right on top of each other and no air conditioning of any kind. Those poor people. That has to be just awful.

[Demovictory9]

10. nightmarish!!

[NickB79]

9. Air conditioning use is set to explode thanks to climate change

Unfortunately, that will require massive amounts of energy to power those AC units. This has not been well-addressed in most climate models to date.

We will need FAR more solar and wind than most models suggest, I'm afraid. That, or we'll burn more gas and coal, creating a spiral of increasing AC demand and rising temps.