Delhi weather: India's capital still under prolonged heatwave | BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- India continues to suffer from a brutal heatwave, with temperatures soaring above 40C in the north of the country - and some parts reaching 50C.
In one of the largest hospitals in India’s capital, Delhi, the country's first-of-its-kind heat stroke emergency room has been opened.
Dozens of people have died of heat-related illnesses since March, when the country's summer began.
In the capital city, it is about 20C hotter than the average month of June.
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She meant 6 to 8 degrees hotter not 68.
this will be the coolest year for the rest of your life
Yes, we all should acknowledge that climate can be a killer!
In 2023 there were 204K deaths in Europe attributed to cold, and 20K deaths in Europe attributed to heat.
(ClimateADAPT data taken from 850 EU cities, 30 countries)1
why is that?
@@emiliopena7 because it's getting hotter each year, next year will be hotter if not even more than this year, and next two years, 3 years, and so on
@@RizkiBagaswaraPutrainvest in Aircon.
@@RizkiBagaswaraPutra as a trend it's getting hotter, not in a linear way.
they've got at least 6 days of 40c+
Normal summer in Australia upsie do
We're also experiencing heatwave prolong here in the Philippines.. As much as possible don't stay under the heat of the sun for more than 30 mins.. Stay safe!
India just hit 1.5 billion people, for a while yet, as long as they can feed that many people. With this summer’s heat, soils and rivers are drying out. Agricultural production is going to be hammered!
Monsoon started in India. Thats how the planet helped India.
do they still measure in Imperial units in India...? bloody hell...
Body temperature is always measured in Fahrenheit (in most countries that I know of). For everything else SI units are used in India.
@@indrajitg nope, because of the widespread adoption of the metric system, most countries worldwide - including non-metric Liberia and Burma - use Celsius as their official temperature scale. Only a few countries use Fahrenheit as their official scale: the United States, Belize, Palau, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. Fahrenheit is still sometimes used in Canada, although Celsius is more common and is the official Canadian temperature scale.
@@bonnie115 Are you talking about temperature in general or body temperature? In India, for everything else, degree Celsius is used but when it comes to body temperature, Fahrenheit is used. That's the reason she used C for describing the temperature in Delhi but switched to F when she was talking about the body temperature of the heatstroke victim. Maybe it is a colloquial use, but that's what I have always seen people doing.
@@indrajitg I'm sure you're correct, but that's odd as even the UK (which took a long time to switch to the metric system) now uses degrees Celsius exclusively, both for weather and for body temperature. As far as I'm aware it's only the US now that stubbornly clings to the old imperial measurements system, including degrees Fahrenheit.
no we use celsius but doctors use Fahrenheit for body temperature because it's more expanded so gives a more precise data.
Yes 45+ C° in New Delhi
Dang
I think its 52 c
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India experiences high temperatures and extreme heat due to a combination of geographic, climatic, and environmental factors. Here are some key reasons why India is known for its hot climate:
1. **Tropical Location**: India is located in the tropical region, near the equator, which exposes the country to direct sunlight and high levels of solar radiation throughout the year. The proximity to the equator results in a consistently warm climate with minimal seasonal variations in temperature.
2. **Monsoon Climate**: India's climate is influenced by the monsoon winds, which bring heavy rainfall during the monsoon season (June to September) and dry, hot weather during the rest of the year. The monsoon winds play a significant role in regulating temperatures and precipitation patterns across the country.
3. **Topography and Geography**: India's diverse topography, including mountains, plateaus, plains, and coastal areas, contributes to variations in temperature and climate across different regions. For instance, the northern plains experience hot summers due to their low elevation and proximity to the Thar Desert, while the Himalayan regions have cooler temperatures due to higher altitudes.
4. **Desert Regions**: India is home to the Thar Desert in the northwest, which experiences extremely high temperatures during the summer months. The arid conditions and lack of vegetation in desert regions contribute to the intense heat and dry climate prevalent in these areas.
5. **Urban Heat Island Effect**: Major cities in India, characterized by high population density, rapid urbanization, and extensive concrete structures, often exhibit the urban heat island effect. Urban areas tend to absorb and retain heat, leading to elevated temperatures compared to surrounding rural areas.
6. **Air Pollution**: Air pollution, particularly in urban centers and industrial regions, can exacerbate heat levels in India. Pollution particles and gases in the atmosphere can trap heat, leading to higher temperatures and reduced air quality, especially during the summer months.
7. **Global Climate Change**: India, like many countries worldwide, is experiencing the impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures and changing weather patterns. Climate change contributes to more frequent heatwaves, prolonged hot spells, and extreme weather events that intensify heat-related challenges in the country.
8. **Lack of Green Cover**: Deforestation, land degradation, and loss of green cover in many parts of India have reduced the natural cooling effects of vegetation and forests. The absence of green spaces and tree cover in urban and rural areas can contribute to higher temperatures and reduced natural cooling.
9. **Water Scarcity**: Water scarcity in certain regions of India, exacerbated by factors such as over-extraction of groundwater, inefficient water management practices, and erratic monsoon patterns, can contribute to heat stress and drought conditions. Lack of water availability can intensify heat-related challenges for communities and ecosystems.
Overall, the combination of India's tropical location, monsoon climate, diverse topography, urbanization, air pollution, and environmental factors contributes to the country's reputation for hot weather conditions. Understanding these factors is essential for addressing heat-related challenges, implementing climate resilience measures, and promoting sustainable practices to mitigate the impacts of extreme heat in India. Certainly! Let's further explore the factors contributing to India's hot climate and the implications of extreme heat on the environment, public health, and society:
10. **Heat-Related Health Risks**: The high temperatures in India pose significant health risks to the population, particularly vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children, and individuals with pre-existing health conditions. Heatwaves can lead to heat exhaustion, heatstroke, dehydration, and other heat-related illnesses, placing strain on healthcare systems and emergency services.
11. **Agricultural Impacts**: Extreme heat and prolonged periods of high temperatures can have detrimental effects on agriculture in India. Heat stress can reduce crop yields, impact livestock health, and exacerbate water scarcity issues, leading to agricultural losses, food insecurity, and economic challenges for farming communities.
12. **Water Management Challenges**: Rising temperatures and heatwaves in India can strain water resources and exacerbate water management challenges. Increased evaporation rates, reduced water availability, and heightened demand for cooling water can impact water supply, sanitation, and irrigation systems, affecting both urban and rural areas.
13. **Energy Demand and Power Outages**: High temperatures drive up energy demand for cooling systems, air conditioning, and refrigeration in India, leading to increased electricity consumption. This surge in energy demand can strain power grids, result in power outages, and pose challenges for energy reliability and distribution during peak heat periods.
14. **Impact on Biodiversity**: Extreme heat can disrupt ecosystems, threaten biodiversity, and alter species distributions in India. Heat stress, habitat loss, and changes in temperature regimes can impact wildlife, plant species, and ecosystems, leading to shifts in biodiversity patterns and ecological imbalances.
15. **Urban Heat Stress**: Urban areas in India, characterized by heat-absorbing surfaces, limited green spaces, and high population densities, are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of extreme heat. Urban heat islands can exacerbate heat stress, air pollution, and health risks for residents, highlighting the importance of urban planning, green infrastructure, and climate-resilient design.
16. **Climate Adaptation and Resilience**: Addressing the challenges of extreme heat in India requires a multi-faceted approach that integrates climate adaptation, resilience-building, and sustainable development strategies. Investing in heat-resilient infrastructure, enhancing early warning systems, promoting green urban spaces, and implementing heat action plans can help mitigate the impacts of extreme heat on communities and ecosystems.
17. **Community Engagement and Awareness**: Raising awareness about the risks of extreme heat, promoting heat safety measures, and engaging communities in heat preparedness initiatives are essential steps to protect vulnerable populations and enhance resilience to heat-related challenges. Education, outreach, and community participation play a crucial role in building adaptive capacity and reducing the impacts of extreme heat events.
By understanding the multifaceted impacts of extreme heat in India and implementing proactive measures to address heat-related challenges, policymakers, communities, and stakeholders can work together to build climate resilience, protect public health, safeguard ecosystems, and promote sustainable development in the face of rising temperatures and climate variability.
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How can people wear pants, long sleeve and jackets??? Crazy! There's so much strange weather happening all over the world!!! We need to pray for God's miracles!!!!
It is not new, south asia is always facing heat wave in every year, but this year really extreme heat wave was going on. And now extreme rainfall causing flad is every parts of India
50 degrees Celsius is 122 degrees in Fahrenheit.
Isn’t India always in heat wave mode this time of year? Is this news or just hype?
not hype my town has never in its recorded history, seen 50°C but we did now and also Harsil doesn't see above 22 on average but this time it was 25-26°C.
Overpopulation . . .
The 10% wealthiest on the planet are responsible for 45% of GHG emissions. Bottom 50%, less than 15%. Which group do you think the people suffering most from this belong to?
Still have to feed the 1.5 billion people in China and India. Rivers are running dry and aquifers are being tapped. At the same time, increased gas and fertilizer demand is stretching availability. For how many more months are India and China going to be able to feed their massive populations?
@@freeheeler09they have massive amounts of natural resources too, that's why they reached this number, just so you know.
the heat is nothing compared to the filth there
You mean the men? 😂
😂😂😂😂
😂
It's called summer ... 😂
As an Indian: I can surely say that this is the hottest ever here in India 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵 I myself biked for 30-40 minutes today change the color of the hand from 90% white to 30% 😒😒 Too hot here
Come singapore friend
Weather news ilove👍
Remember to thank your elders and politicians for selling your future for profit
"BuT cLiMaTe ChAnGe IsN't ReAl It'S lIKe 22° C wHeRe I lIvE !!1!!!1"
Deadline with Co2 release was in early 90's.
Flowers are blooming in Antarktica its game over ☠️
China 🇨🇳 accounted for 2/3 of new global coal plant capacity in 2023.
- China built 70 GW of new coal-power capacity last year, almost 20 times the rest of the world's 3.7 GW combined.
😂😂@lastchang@kumar.Wow...you part time jobs is here 😂😂 how much you're getting for each comment??10 rupees?😂😂😂
Chine 30 years of pollution, USA 140 years of pollution
China have 1.5 bil people.
Should they use the same electricity as , say, UK ?
Should an industrial plant use the same electricity as a farm?
Don’t be stupid.
They are also pumping out large amount of solar panels and green energy.
@@ToiChutGongWuyes yes it is
Filipino still drinks coffee at 45'C
Imagine the smell
Smells better than wet dogs
curry
Smells better than your mom's pussy
Uk is irrelevant 😅😅 keep barking to uncle sam😅
Cumcel@@carljohnson6128
Grown tree 🌲 Indian cut everything
Imagine being in a sauna 7/24.
India is a diverse country as you move through different states you get to feel different cultures, traditions, food habits along with the climatic conditions which varies from North to South and East to West. Its simply a heterogeneous experience!
This more fake news of the bias BBC! Where is proving? The BBC is taking footage from Pak and lying to say is Delhi. Britishers so jealous of Bharat because our economy much greater thanking Modi ji and most thanking Putin ji! Jai shree Putin!!
i mean it is pretty much a subcontinent. I'm surprised people think india is comparable to a small country like those of europe.
@@PikaPluff lack of education and common sense in some cases. Media has always portrayed India as one unit.
Monsoon rains started in southern India.Mother Earth always helped India in needs.❤
Even in central and eastern India. Its only UP, Delhi, Haryana, Bihar etc. which are hot.
@@prakhardubey2356here we have rain in haryana Chandigarh Himachal from 3 days
It seemed mother likes to screw them over more often though lately
Big deal. 104°f is average summer temperature here in some parts of CA. Shoot, the summer of '06 in Concord CA got up to 116°f during the day with 110°f in the shade. 90-95°f at night
Solution: build underground bunkers
Its weird seeing BBC's reporter standing infront of decent area instead of a slum while reporting for India . What changed BBC ?
I see poor Indian civilians still using water trucks for their water supply, who can tell me what is happening to this superpower in 2025? They don't even have running water? Modi govt needs to change for his voters!
Because bbc only tempt to show that only😂😂
Give it a rest............
It will eventually cool over geological time.O overpopulation is the main factor.Delhi has a big urban heat island.
India’s huge population means the country faces environmental catastrophe, climate change or no climate change.
Shift and split capital
Easy prediction....It will be even hotter in 2025.
Forget india, Jacobabad in Pakistan hit 52c for several days and average for the past 2 weeks has been 48c
🇮🇳 indiais still under a brutal heatwave
8 Billion people is too few, we need 16 Billion people, 32 Billion people or best yet 64 Billion people ASAP because more wonderful people means more brilliant minds to solve problems.
Less people, less pollution, the world will fix itself. Just as it did before humans ever fucked it up to begin with. 8 billion is far too many to build for and feed.
and more war. remember humans are half evil and half good.
thank India stand hot，China is very cool now
South India ..its cool and raining...Bangalore..
Their heat is a dry heat ... NYC is humidity driven......😊.. Majority of the population is poor....
Sono tutti segni che quel Giorno non è lontano. Tenetevi pronti, e sperate: infatti la vostra liberazione è vicina. Abbiate fiducia: non tarderà.
OMG
When will it next rain in India?
Everyday it rains in India. India is huge.
44 In Islamabad for last two weeks.
Humans has destroyed this planet Just imagine if we do get to space and the damage will do on other planets
At least there will be less scam callers
They have AC.
It's called summer ...
They should give people dirt bikes to do the hajj and make it like a huge race that would be so cool
what.........AGAIN ? 😆
don't worry about them they are superpower
Speck English!! The world doesn't use Fahrenheit.
As others have posted on here, for some reason India uses Fahrenheit for body temperature specifically, and for weather its Celsius. Not sure why.
@@SenorSol Because its more expanded so it gives a more precise data for example 0.1 Fahrenheit change would be negligible in celcius and the overall figure would remain unchanged.
@@SenorSolfor example 97.4°F is 36.5 on a mercury thermometer and 97.5 is also 36.5.
@@flaminmongrel6955 That sounds dubious, and pedantic! The UK's NHS system uses metric for body temperature measurement. If you go on their website it clearly states degrees Celsius. Why would anyone need to be as precise as 0.1 degree Fahrenheit when measuring temperature in humans?
Better to say 0.004 C rise in temperature. No difference in precision between the two scales!
It actually rained in delhi yesterday so I think you're a bit out of touch here
Not dancing now india.. try the rain dance 😂
"Nope, no global warming here either"
Smh
Send that heat yo scotland plz for the love of God its freezing 🥶 here shit summer .
Scotland please share some of your coldness here in South East Asia we are experiencing global boiling here 🥹
you must be a charlie chapati
Our north is colder than scotland, why wouldn't we send our own heat to our Himalayan towns like Rohtang or Lahaul?
bbc using farenheit ??
If we can just get control of our southern border things will be okay.
who is from India 🇮🇳🤙
indians love BBC hahaha
They are too late to broadcast heatwave news ..
Modi ji ne war rukwadi papa 😂
This more fake news of the bias BBC! Where is proving? The BBC is taking footage from Pak and lying to say is Delhi. Britishers so jealous of Bharat because our economy much greater thanking Modi ji and most thanking Putin ji! Jai shree Putin!!
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WORLD IZ BURNING
STOP - DROP & ROLL
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Load of bollox
Get back to your PC game like an ostrich with its head in the sand.
JESUS IS ON HIS WAY SENDING THE SAINTS AND RAISING THE DEAD REPENT AND FEAR THE LORD
What can 'Jesus' do about climate change, and why hasn't he done anything about it before?
It’s always hot in indain😂😂😂
Especially the curry!
quite a stupid statement once you realise India is home to the Himalayas which is tallest mountain range in the world and the only place referred to as the "third pole" because of the abundance of glaciers.
India must pay for its pollution
Pappiooo kam Paaap Kro na 🤣🤣🤣
Overpopulation 😐
Karma!!😅😅😅
Its called the weather
Do they only find peaceful community reporters to work in india
Peaceful color also😅
More weather 🙄
Pssssst ! They get one every year👍It used to be called s
Summer but now that governmentds are selling fresh air its somehow un heard of 🤷♂️
Go vegan
you are eating the food from my food.. go away
Ff
Власти Польши рассказали, как страна заработает на восстановлении Украины
Польша не может не участвовать в восстановлении Украины, заявил Rzeczpospolita председатель комитета по иностранным делам Сейма Польши, глава Совета по сотрудничеству с Украиной Павел Коваль. Польские предприниматели зарабатывают на открытии украинского рынка, заявил глава Совета по сотрудничеству с Украиной Павел Коваль. В 2023 году экспорт польских товаров в страну составил рекордные $13 млрд.
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заработают? а вы батенька оптимист я посмотрю! а кто и чем платить им будет за работу? а заявка на участие в восстановении это хорошо! мы куда нибудь это обязательно запишем!
The poor might not have AC in india but still has fans. BBC thinks this is 20th century india. This india under modi can crush england like a bug
Bruh, 104 F is a normal July day in the southwest US. Dah fuck.
What about weather control progam, must be unsuccessful if we still hear about deatheatwaves?
Ye, check it.