This appeared last week:
India sweats in 52.9C heat? Maybe not
By AFP
Updated 6:46PM May 30, 2024, First published at 11:27AM May 30, 2024
Power usage in India’s capital surged to a record high on Wednesday as residents of the sprawling megacity struggled to keep cool during a crushing heatwave, with temperatures sizzling above 45C.
India’s government-run weather bureau said a station reading showing a potentially record-breaking temperature in the capital may have been due to an “error” in the measuring equipment.
As people sought relief from scorching temperatures, the electricity grid groaned under a record peak power demand of 8302 megawatts, according to official data.
The India Meteorological Department, which reported “severe heat-wave conditions”, this week issued a red alert health notice for Delhi’s estimated 30 million people, and authorities on Wednesday warned of dire water shortages and ordered teams to clamp down on wastage.
The weather bureau also said it had sent a team to investigate a staggeringly high reading at an automatic weather station.
“Mungeshpur reported 52.9C as an outlier compared to other stations,” the bureau said, referring to a station in a Delhi suburb.
“It could be due to error in the sensor or the local factor.”
The bureau’s multiple other sites recorded a maximum temperature over Delhi on Wednesday that “varied from 45.2C to 49.1C”.
Bureau meteorologist Soma Sen Roy said officers were “checking out” whether the station had recorded it correctly.
On Tuesday, two Delhi stations – at Mungeshpur and at Narela – posted readings of 49.9C.
In 2022, Delhi temperatures were recorded to have hit 49.2C.
In 2016, 51C was recorded in Phalodi on the edge of Rajasthan’s Thar Desert, the highest confirmed temperature in India.
AFP
Here is the link:
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/india-sweats-in-529c-heat-maybe-not/news-story/81f69828e12ea67b0aa98dae8bab67b3
I find this utterly incredible. I have no idea how anyone could survive temperatures like this! No matter what the actual reader was, it was clearly lethally hot!
If this is even half true I am very glad I am in the second half of my life and not the first. It looks like things are going to get pretty terrible as we move forward!
David.
Sadly, all it will take is one cold day, and those Egyptian crocodiles will be claiming it’s all a hoax and something to do with the earth's wobbling or liberalism; libraries and the poor aren’t being made to suffer enough.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, we have the MYHR.