Authorities warn of water shortages with temperatures 9C higher than expected and 1.9C above previous countrywide highpoint
  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    51·
    6 months ago

    I don’t see humidity mentioned in the article, that’s the real killer once the temperature gets up above body temperature. If humidity is high then evaporating water isn’t going to effectively cool a person and the only way to survive is to get into air conditioning or other artificially low-temperature safe zones. Temperatures like this are more often seen in arid places, I dread the time something like this hits a major tropical urban area when it’s humid. We could see megadeaths.

    • GormadtEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      Looking at their current 10 day forecast doesn’t look very pleasant either

      The coldest 2 days are going to be 42C (about 107F) with lows close to 30C (about 86F)

      When I looked (about 10am for them) it was about 37C (about 100F) with a 31% humidity.

      It’s a fuckin disaster over there with multiple days predicting 45C as the high.

    • neo@lemy.lolEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      Only people with AC (or deep basements?) would be save… as long as they have electricity.

      Makes me wonder what would happen in a mega city like Delhi, when the weather get’s lethal. Will people storm places with AC or will they be apathetic (like starving people).

      I hope we won’t find out! But at least heat shelters will probably become normal.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Also, people with running water. The cold tap can get quite warm in some places but 38C, I don’t think so.

        • neo@lemy.lolEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Good point. I haven’t thought of that. Boy do I hope it will never come this. I don’t think the city’s water supply would last long.

  • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
    27·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      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.

  • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    Doesn’t India have a shit ton of smog

    I wouldn’t be surprised if that was creating a local greenhouse effect

    • yildolw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures

  • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    The article has been updated. It’s likely that the sensor was faulty.

    The highest temperature recorded by other sensors was 49,1 C

          • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            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.

    • ScaraTera@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      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