The mercury con tinued to soar in the city with the maximum temperature on Friday going up to 42.9 degrees Celsius, the highest for the season and also the hottest April 16 in the last five years. Last year, the maximum temperature on the day was 40 degrees Celsius. The bad news for the capital is that the
THE World Bank has warned the planet is on track to warm by 4 degrees this century, leading to more extreme heat waves, lower crop yields and increased flooding, possibly as early as 2060. In a report
BHUBANESWAR: As the heatwave continued to grip Orissa, western and interior Orissa sizzled where the day temperature soared past 45.5 degree Celsius on Wednesday. Both Titlagarh and Sambalpur recorded 45.5 degree Celsius whereas at Hirakud and Jharsuguda, mercury hovered about 45 C, the India Meteorological Department said.
A SECOND straight poor summer monsoon is unlikely, India Meteorological Department (IMD) chief said ahead of an official forecast for the rains that are crucial to the economy of the world
The summer of 2010 has just begun, and India is already reeling under extreme temperatures as the mercury climbs unprecedented heights. This unusual rise in summer temperatures could be connected due to global warming says CSE. See Also Report: Global climate in 2009 : WMO www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/302056 Report: Daily gridded temperature data set (1969-2005)
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh is reeling under intense heat with the mercury rising to 43 degrees Celsius at the world-renowned tourist destination Khajuraho, Tikamgarh, Khandwa and Datia. Just like last month, this month began with hot weather. During the week, day temperature hovered between 40 and 43 C in most places. Night temperature is also much above normal.
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BHUBANESWAR: The blistering heat has gone from bad to worse in Orissa even as the alleged sunstroke toll rose to 17 today. Four more deaths have been reported from the districts in the last 24 hours, the State Revenue Control Room stated. While the fresh death reports are yet to be verified, the official toll stood at two.
New Delhi: It seems like an early summer in the capital with temperatures threatening to cross the dreaded 40 degree Celsius mark anytime now. After the second hottest March since 1900, April promises to be warmer still and it remains to be seen if the soaring mercury will set new records this year.
There is a tremendous desire to attribute causes to weather and climate events that is often challenging from a physical standpoint. Headlines attributing an event solely to either human-induced climate
BRAJRAJNAGAR: Summer has just begun but water- stressed Brajrajnagar is already feeling the heat. Though political parties promise to mitigate the drinking water crisis during elections the assurances are gone with the end of polls and the denizens are left with parched throats.
Under a worst case scenario in the long run, urban areas of Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Kolkata are projected to experience the highest absolute increases in the heat related mortality by 2080s,
Mercury is on the rise in most Madhya Pradesh districts with the day temperature reaching 40 degrees celsius. The districts of Satna, Rewa and Gwalior recorded temperature of 40 degrees which was seven to eight degrees above normal during the past 24 hours. Similar rise in temperature was recorded in Jabalpur, Sagar Unjjain and Chambal divisions.
The city recorded an all-time high of 40.6 degrees Celsius on March 31, 1945 The city on Sunday recorded the hottest day of March in the past six years with the temperature shooting up to 39.2 degrees Celsius, as per the meteorological department.
India experienced the worst summer in fifty years which left more than 3,000 dead and millions soaking in sweat. The heat wave took its toll in almost every state in the country, the worst-affected
Two weeks before the official beginning of summer, a heat wave baked the eastern third of the U.S. and Canada, driving temperature well above 35 degree C. At the same time, a flurry of scientific
Heat advisories provide advanced warning of dangerously hot weather, but criteria used to trigger alerts have not been systematically evaluated. Metzger et al.
Global warming or routine phenomenon? Experts are divided over whether the current heat wave scorching parts of India is an alarming global warming signal or a normal phenomenon no different from
“Climate dice,” describing the chance of unusually warm or cool seasons, have become more and more “loaded” in the past 30 y, coincident with rapid global warming. The distribution of seasonal mean temperature
This publication, prepared in preparation for the Copenhagen UN Conference on Climate Change (2009) illustrates the willingness of France to mobilize all actors in society, including scientific, institutions and civil society, in the debate about climate change mitigation and adaptation.
