Sunday, May 24, 2015

India in the grip of a heat wave – 335 dead


A severe heatwave is sweeping across India and it has resulted in 335 deaths as reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 24 May 2015. Even hill stations like Mussoorie, situated 6,580 feet above sea level, has not been spared – it is sweltering at 36 degrees Celsius.
The situation is more severe in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana where the brutal heat has taken the lives of 135 people. The heat-related deaths have now gone up to 335 in the last three days with breakup of 75 in Andhra and 60 in Telangana as temperatures were five to seven degrees above normal.
These two states have rescheduled ongoing government schemes like NREGS since the majority of the deaths were from sunstroke and the victims were laborers. Khammam in Telangana was at 48 degrees – this has broken its previous record of 47.2 of 1947.
The Met department has warned that it is going to get hotter and temperatures are rising in central, north-west, parts of east and peninsular India for the last few days as revealed by the AMD, New Delhi.
As to heat wave conditions in other part of India – it will continue in Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar and Jharkhand for the next couple of days. In UP, Allahabad, it was at a sweltering 47 degrees.
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