More than 500 people killed as heat wave bakes parts of India

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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Soaring temperatures have gripped parts of southern and northern India in an extreme heat wave which has killed more than 500 people and looks set to continue this week, officials said on Monday.

The hottest place in India was Allahabad, a city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which saw mercury rise to 47.7 degrees Celsius (117.8 Fahrenheit) on Sunday, while the capital Delhi recorded a high of 43.5C (110.3F).

Most of the 539 recorded deaths have been of construction workers, the elderly or the homeless in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, said officials, but some deaths have also occurred in Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal.
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Director of Andhra Pradesh’s Disaster Management Department K. Dhananjaya Reddy said 325 people had died of sunstroke or dehydration in the state in the last three days.

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[hunter]

1. It would be a mistake to think it can't happen in the U.S.A.

All it takes is a large regional power failure caused by a utility cutting corners and neglecting infrastructure to increase "profits."

Unfortunately these things will be happening more often worldwide, as temperatures rise, but the U.S.A. will carry on, business as usual, until it happens in a big way here.

People keep talking like global warming and the accompanying climate change is still something in the indefinite future, but it's here now and will only get worse.

[pansypoo53219]

2. i happened to catch dave shwartz on the weather channel being droll about a heat wave,

+ mentioned the 400 or so that expired the year before in chicago.