India's Year w/o Spring; Heatwave Likely To Continue For Weeks; Extreme Highs Already Pushing 120F

[hatrack]

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An unprecedented heatwave in South Asia this month (April 2022) is bringing dangerously high temperatures to over a billion people. Both India and Pakistan are being hit the hardest with widespread record-breaking temperatures above 105 degrees F (40 degrees C). Conditions are expected to worsen this week in those regions, where temperatures approaching 113 degrees F (45 degrees C) are possible.

The heatwave weather began in late March for northern India and Pakistan, and spread into the first weeks of April. Although heatwaves are not uncommon in this region during the pre-monsoon season from April to June, residents and meteorologists have noted that this heatwave was the earliest they could remember.

With no relief in sight, some observers are suggesting this heatwave pattern might become one of the longest-lasting in recent decades. Some are calling this year the year without a spring. The average temperature in India in March 2022 was about 92 degrees F (33 degrees C), the warmest March ever recorded since records began in 1902.

Forecast models indicate that parts of Pakistan and northwestern India could reach temperatures near 120 degrees F (50 degrees C) on Thursday and Friday. Major cities such as Delhi and Lahore are forecast to reach 113 degrees F (45 degrees C). These temperatures are 18 degrees F (10 degrees C) warmer than the normal high temperatures for April, and would approach the all-time record temperatures for the month. Temperatures in major metropolitan areas can be further exasperated by the urban heat island effect, increasing local temperatures a few degrees higher than the surrounding countryside.

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https://climatecrocks.com/2022/04/27/indian-heat-wave-means-a-year-without-spring/

[NNadir]

1. Yes but...

Fukushima!!!!

It should be obvious that deaths from extreme heat are as acceptable as millions of deaths from air pollution if anyone anywhere at any time is exposed to radiation whether it injures them or not.

Infrared radiation is obviously excluded from this constraint. Nobody cares who dies from heat.

India is one of the world's largest producers of wheat, but no matter.

FUKUSHIMA!!!!!!!