Absolutely unusual temperatures on the India. It is a heat wave you are being very persistent. They carry more than six weeks above of the temperatures that correspond to this time. In total, three heat waves have been recorded.
It all started the second week of March, with the first of three heat waves. Despite the fact that it only lasted a week, it caused the thermometers to register the highest average temperature for a month of March, of 33.1 degrees averagesince records began in 1901. The second heat wave took place between March 27 and April 11, while the third began on April 25 and is still in force, leaving maximum temperatures of up to 46 degrees in the north and east of India. “If we look at the number of gusts (of heat) it is not high, but the total number of days of occurrence of heat wave is higher than normal,” the director of the Department of Meteorology of India (IMD for its acronym in English), Mrutyunjay Mohapatra.
It should be remembered that India and Pakistan are the second and fifth most populous country in the world. Over there it’s almost warmer than in areas of the Sahara desert, as can be seen in the images of the cover video. Total, 1.6 billion people are in these two countries, of which a million people are going to be in hot conditions above 40 degrees. Even in some areas approaching 50. At night, without going below 30 degrees. In these extreme temperatures mortality increases. In fact, according to a recent study published by Indian meteorologists, analyzing extreme weather events such as heat waves that affected the Asian country in the last 50 yearsmore than 17,000 people have died since then due to these periods of extreme temperatures.
They are also having an impact politically, as the authorities fear that the already limited coal reserves are not enough to meet electricity demand, and power outages increase. This problem has been done evident in new delhi. Your regional energy minister, satyendar jainwarned of the shortage of coal in the two main power plants in the capital, which could disrupt the uninterrupted supply of electricity in some essential institutions such as hospitals or the subway network, as well as homes in general.
This was announced on Thursday by the minister in a statement after holding an emergency meeting, according to the local news agency PTI. Jai specified that between 25 and 30% of the city’s electricity demand is satisfied through these two plants, which lack the necessary coal reserves.
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