#india heatwave

[3nn-express]

Heatwave in Thailand: Visitors face water deficit to the well-known Koh Phi Phi Islands.

Heatwave in Thailand: Due to a heavy heatwave, visitors to Koh Phi Phi Islands are advised to be mindful of the potential water shortage. The circumstances might cause the water supply to stop. Authorities are thinking about using boat transportation on the mainland as a fix.

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[suchananewsblog]

Explained | What is relative humidity and why does it matter on a hot day?

Relative humidity is a easy idea as climate phenomena go – however it has important, far-reaching penalties for a way we should care for ourselves on a hot or moist day. Humidity is the quantity of moisture within the air round us, and there are 3 ways to trace it. The most typical of them is absolute humidity: the mass of water vapour in a given quantity of the air and water vapour combination,…

[kayechanted]

We all know minimum wage workers will be the first to take the hit from climate change but it's still soul crushing to read about it regardless

I'm so upset man I know for sure in 10 years northern India will be uninhabitable.

Link to the article. Please read and let it set in how awful it is in Delhi. And how this is only the beginning.

[la-pou-belle]

If you watch any video at all today, I really recommend watching this one.

This person discusses where we (as a global whole) are at right now with climate change, and some impacts I agree that most all people will experience in the next 5-15 years. Obviously that doesn't sound super cheery, but I personally found the presentation truthful without fear-mongering, and relieving because I have been having sharing these thoughts with my own personal circle for at least a year now. You are not alone and we need to be having these conversations.

[anarchywoofwoof]

from Licypriya Kangujam on twitter:

This is how climate crisis looks like in Delhi, India 🇮🇳 today! 📷 When the water tanker arrives in the area.

there are over 30 million people in the Delhi region alone. India has 18% of the worlds population but only 4% of the worlds water sources and are in the midst of an absolutely brutal and deadly heatwave with temperatures reaching up to 56C / 132F in parts of the country.

[phir-milenge]

inspired by this meme by QueerSatanic

[thoughtlessarse]

At least 33 Indian polling staff died on the last day of voting from heatstroke in just one state, says a top election official, after scorching temperatures gripped swaths of the country. Navdeep Rinwa, chief electoral officer for the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where voting in the seventh and final stage of the election ended on Saturday, said 33 polling personnel died due to the heat. The figure included security guards and sanitation staff. “A monetary compensation of 1.5 million rupees [$18,000] will be provided to the families of the deceased,” Rinwa told reporters on Sunday. While there have been reports of multiple deaths from the intense heatwave – with temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) in many places – the dozens of staff dying in one day marks an especially grim toll.

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[nando161mando]

"With no respite from heatwave conditions, hospitals in Delhi-NCR are seeing an influx of patients with complaints of heat stroke and exhaustion. Doctors have advised the elderly and immuno-compromised patients to avoid stepping outdoors."

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/delhi-records-warmest-night-in-12-years-with-minimum-temperature-at-35-2-degrees-celsius/cid/2028157

[indizombie]

Heatwaves killed more than 25,000 people between 1992 and 2019, according to official figures. As India doesn’t compile mortality data properly, experts reckon the actual toll would be much higher. India’s heat action plans are also not working well, as a study found. Tellingly, 68% of the vendors in Delhi have heard about heatwaves, according to the Greenpeace study. Yet the heat emergency doesn’t figure in the political discourse. “Many see a heatwave as an enduring act of nature, with little expectation from the government to intervene. It reflects a broader issue of low expectations in India," Mr Sircar says. Things look dire in Delhi. In 2022, India saw 203 heatwave days, the highest on record, with Delhi experiencing around 17 of them. March marked India's hottest month recorded by the the weather department, while Delhi had its second-hottest April in 72 years.

Soutik Biswas, ‘Inside India’s first emergency room to fight heat crisis’, BBC

[alanshemper]

17 June 2024

NEW DELHI – If you ask Ansar Khan, he will tell you that the heat killed his baby daughter Ina. She didn’t wake up from her afternoon nap in late May, on the dusty scrap of land she knew as home, with only a blue plastic sheet to shade her.

It was the hottest day he’d ever experienced, and a hot wind blew. It was 121 degrees in New Delhi that day.

“She was crying a bit, so we gave her milk and we all napped. When we woke up, we tried waking her up,” Khan tells NPR. “It was all over in half an hour.”

[duckbang]

*Picks up newspaper*

"Delhi temp at 49.9C"

Uh. Are we sure its meant to be that hot. Um. Guys? Are yall okay?

...holy shit we moved out atthe right time. I would die

[rorapostsbl]

socha tha thandi hawa milegi toh bahar gayi walk karne.

pasine se snaan hogaya toh chup chap ghar laut aayi :')

[jaffre]

wtfffffff the heat we have at 2 in the am

[moodringsformushrooms]

@is-the-owl-video-cute and prev

Here’s what he did the first 100 days of his first term

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/politics/president-biden-first-100-days/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-executive-orders/index.html

There’s a lot of stuff he’s done for the general population, you just have to pay attention. Maybe read a few articles every now and then.

President Biden's plan for the first 100 days of his next term:

—Restore Roe v. Wade

—Sign John Lewis Voting Rights Act

—Expand Social Security and Medicare

—End all medical debt

—Raise the minimum wage

—Pass the PRO Act for workers

—Ban assault weapons

—Lead the world on clean energy

—Permanent child tax credit

—$35 insulin cap for all

—Build more housing

—Invest in child care and elder care

you want that? FIGHT! for it, check if you're registered to vote and then find a way to volunteer, everyone can make a difference everyone!

[todayworldnews2k21]

Heatwave preparedness should be a 365-day effort

Recently, the Tamil Nadu government made a gazette notification that heatwave is a state disaster, clubbing it with 13 other eventualities such as deaths caused by electrocution, thunderstorm and lighting, floods and snakebite. Families of victims including relief workers who died due to heatwave, would be eligible for an ex-gratia of ₹ 4 lakh. These are significant steps as greater onus is now…