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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

www.theguardian.com

silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 7 months ago
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Delhi temperature hits 50.5C as India’s capital records hottest day
www.theguardian.com
Authorities warn of water shortages as temperatures reach nine degrees higher than expected

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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    7 months 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