“The heat is unbearable”: Weather warnings increase as West Bengal grapples with extreme heatwave
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2024
- An extreme heatwave hit West Bengal on Saturday, with the threat of a higher amount forecasted to hit the Indian state this summer.
With temperatures surpassing 44 degrees Celsius in some areas, residents in the state capital, Kolkata, stayed in their homes or shelters to keep cool. Others, however, have nowhere to go and are forced to stay outside, especially as they rely on their clientele to keep their businesses afloat and earn an income.
“What can the poor do? We have to do this to feed ourselves. The heat is unbearable,” said rickshaw driver Ram Ji Paswan.
“I have not seen this much heat here. We are facing a lot of trouble. Customers are not coming,” said local costume jewelry store owner Osim Saha.
A vegetable stall owner said she was forced to put wet fabric on her produce to prevent it from rotting in the heat.
In 2022, 90 citizens were killed as a result of a heatwave. The following year, India was hit by repeated heatwaves which resulted in the death of dozens, a mass of damaged crops and a strain on energy resources as temperatures went as high as 47 degrees Celsius.
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It’s India not Canada 😂
Lol, good one.
difference?
I guess the heat is so bad that I'm not getting those scam calls/ text from their phone centers now... I'm sad that I'm not getting any additional attention
In Bengal, summers can be extremely hot and have high humidity. The plains of South Bengal have a daily maximum temperature around 35-38 °C. It can also exceed 40 °C. The western highlands experience a dry summer like northern India. During the day, the temperature ranges from 38 to 42 °C, though it can reach or exceed 45 °C.
This happened last year too, time to prepare for every year???
It is still cold in Canada.
Justin Trudeau did this, will the man stop at nothing? Why won't he learn to be nice? What have these people done to deserve this Trudeau??????? Shame on you........
He would rather help build roads for them instead of in Canada.
Thanks China 🇨🇳 for
- building more and more *coal-fired power plants,* and
- burning more and more *fossil fuel.*
thanks to EVERYONE who burns fossil fuels!
China's coal-fired power plants are on standby for sudden outages. They mostly use Nuclear now for day to day.
10× more people are affected negatively by cold weather.
the wet bulb temperatures' are what's really deadly over there
Bengals summer it's just like Russian winter so harsh and deadly
A carbon tax would go along way to helping with your weather, as well as an added bonus of getting back more than you put in. God bless.
And paper straws. 😂
Stop 6hem7rails
was that brampton?
No , Zurich, 😅😅 change your Glasses 😅
Looked like Toronto, had me fooled.
And it's only April😮
Im watching from canada
Sounds just like Texas to me. It gets hotter than that here. 🤷🏽♀️
West Bengal isn't one of the hot places in India...in some places it goes to 50C actual temp. Feels like would be higher
You can't bear 35°C in WB,India but can bear 45°C in Delhi.
It's all humidity that doesn't let your body cool. You keep on sweating. You feel like you are in a warm steam,feels like your body is melting
Government should do something for poor.
Beat the heat.
Do they have a carbon tax in West Bengal?
Don't come to Canada
Just drink hot water you want feel thirsty .when u drink ice cold you will more heat the villi inside are put to sleep due to cold drinks
Then stop polluting the Air.
0:35 "You're hot? Here, have some food poisoning"
This brown sweaty people are used to this weather
@Akr-ei5ek Yu reysist
Its not new here. Stop making big news from it 😂
Geoengineered weather warfare from cloud seeding and microwave technologies . . We're not all sheep out here Goebel's Snooze.
global news obsessed with India
Blah, blah……….blah!
Animal agriculture and capitalism have gotta go.
We're like sitting ducks in a cosmic shooting gallery. To leverage the collective intelligence of humanity to solve these problems sooner we could create a human-made mycorrhizal network to ensure safe housing, clean water, healthy food, quality education, and full health care for everyone, while planning future development to be in harmony with the Earth and with each other. A part of that system will be a video game/simulator for kids and adults to plan communities to have more comfortable temperatures. With this foundation humanity could develop more life saving technologies sooner and we could take a short cut up the Kardashev Scale.