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Delhi temperature hits 50.5C as India’s capital records hottest day | Authorities warn of water shortages as temperatures reach nine degrees higher than expected

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Delhi temperature hits 50.5C as India’s capital records hottest day | Authorities warn of water shortages as temperatures reach nine degrees higher than expected

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Delhi heatwave: officials investigating if temperature of 52.9C due to faulty sensor
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Meteorological department examining data from Mungeshpur station amid soaring temperatures that came close to 50 degrees Celsius

Years of scientific research have found the climate crisis is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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    1 month ago

    Several things in combination:

    • It’s sufficiently close to the equator
    • Topography limits air circulation
    • heat dome
    • Dumping the waste from fossil fuel burning into the atmosphere raised it above where temperatures used to get