cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16243336
Delhi temperature hits 52.9C, shattering India’s national record
My father is in his 60s and I fully expect him to die from a power outage cutting off his AC when he’s in his 70s.
That’s where I’m at regarding climate change right now. Literally writing off family members.
I have long since written myself off as likely dying in a fight over resources (food, clean water, medicine) with some yokel who still wouldn’t believe in climate change. And people act confused when I say I have no motivation at work or hope for the future. Wild shit.
It’s always good to have a backup plan in case the world doesn’t end
I like my human sous vide
Doesn’t India have a shit ton of smog
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was creating a local greenhouse effect
I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures
Haha 😆
We are all gonna die
This is fine…
The article has been updated. It’s likely that the sensor was faulty.
The highest temperature recorded by other sensors was 49,1 C
That’s still ludicrously hot
Absolutely. I die inside at 30.
30 isn’t so bad as long as it’s not really humid out.
Depends on what you are used to and if the infrastructure where you live is built with it in mind.
Here, AC in residential buildings is fairly rare. It’s absolutely a luxury that few have.
Holy hell!
🔥🥵
That’s 127.22°F.
That’s not all that far off the world record in Death Valley.
Death Valley, California, breaks the all-time world heat record for the second year in a row
If verified, the 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4°C) reading at the Furnace Creek Visitor’s Center on Friday, July 9, 2021, would be Earth’s highest reliably measured temperature.
There are a whole lot more people living in Delhi than Death Valley, though.
EDIT: According to this, the hottest temperature India has been recorded seeing prior to this was in 2016:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records
51.0 °C (123.8 °F)
That was at Phalodi, which is a desert city in India.
EDIT2: It sounds like the Indian government thinks that the reading may be an error.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/delhi-temperature-may-break-record-highest-ever-india-126-degrees/
A temperature reading collected in Delhi, India’s capital territory, may have broken national records as the country grapples with a blistering heat wave. The reading — 52.9 degrees Celsius or 126.1 degrees Fahrenheit — was preliminary and technically an outlier compared with others taken in Delhi on the same day, officials said. But, if confirmed, it would be the highest temperature ever registered anywhere in India.
The temperature reading came from a substation in Mungeshpur, a neighborhood in Delhi. Located in the northwest, India’s capital territory — which includes its capital city, New Delhi — is home to almost 30 million people and covers about 600 square miles of land. The Indian Meteorological Department said in a news release that the reading out of Mungeshpur could be due to a sensor issue or some other error, and that it would examine the data and the sensor.
The difference is that the Delhi temperature is likely with significantly more humidity than the Death Valley one, even despite the fact that it’s the drier part of the year in Delhi.
Yeah. Where I used to live, 28C was bang on perfect. My new part of the world which is more inland and dry, it felt like that at 43. I would never had known if someone hadn’t mentioned “record heat”.
I’ve been in 52 in dessert and it’s more like an oven, much less like a sauna. It’s “interesting”. I’ve been in 48C in a humid climate and it the heat felt ois so, so, so much worse, most people wouldn’t understand it unless experienced. It feels genuinely lethal and people definitely do die in their homes.
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Not quite.
Study finds lower scam incidents worldwide in coincidence with the climate event.
You do realise how cynical this is no? We are dying of the consequences of global warming to which the global South has contributed the least to, yet will suffer the most and can’t afford to survive it because of centuries of colonial loot
indians scamming britons over the internet is morally correct
