Posted on 05/28/2015 12:13:20 PM PDT by PROCON
Full Title: It’s so hot in India right now the roads are literally melting: At least 1,400 dead in month-long heatwave
It’s so hot in India right now that the streets are literally melting.
Soaring summer temperatures in India have left more than 1,400 people dead over the past month, officials said Thursday.
Most of the 1,412 heat-related deaths so far have occurred in Andhra Pradesh and neighbouring Telangana, where temperatures have soared up to 47 C, according to government figures.
“The rains which have eluded us for the last couple of years have created serious drought conditions,” said state minister K.T. Rama Rao in Telangana, which was carved out of Andhra Pradesh as a separate state just last year.
“This is unprecedented … so there is a little bit of panic,” he said. “Hopefully the monsoon will be on time. Hopefully we will receive rain very, very soon.”
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I must be getting more cynical as I get older, but I just assume these stories always have agendas anymore and the agenda for this one is glo-bull warming. Funny how there are no big news stories about how >40,000 people died from the cold in England this year or around 1.5 million Europeans or that 20x more people die from cold than heat. The alarmists say it is just coincidental that they die when it’s cold, yet here, they KNOW 1,412 deaths were heat-related!
A heatwave like this happening in US inner-cities that have Amish populations in excess of 15% would cost billions.
I fully understand that, which is why I stated that shade works in the desert, but not so much in humid areas. It's really not so much the heat that kills them, it's the heat combined with the humidity (which India and Europe have more of than the desert southwest). Sweating alone doesn't cool you down.
Ghengis Khan gave up on total conquest of India when one of his sons there wrote “The heat in this place slays men”.
And yet, Rudyard Kipling said he would be hard pressed to find a spot in India that was as hot as New York City in 1896.
Just wait until the monsoonal rains arrive very soon. Then everybody in India will start complaining about the various rivers in India going over the banks....
The southern tip of India is less than 10 degrees north of the equator. The southern end of Sri Lanka is only about 5 degrees north of the equator.
Well, since India has taken all of our business then *they* can afford to pay “carbon taxes” and save the planet from “global warming”.
"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun”
Been there, lived in the slums of Andrha Pradesh in 2012 when it was 49C, no A/C, no electricity and the humidity so high that you could watch the sweat drip off your fingers and puddle on the ground like you stepped out of the shower.
Just got back from a trip there last month when the average temp was around 105.
Yes - 50C (122F) is not uncommon in that part of India this time of year. With the El Nino in the Pacific - the monsoon might be short-lived and the heat long lasting.
When I was in Africa the locals wore fleece jackets during 90 degree winter. One lady told me it was “cold, very cold.” They were so accustomed to 137 degree summers. For me summer was miserable there. It felt like a hot blow dryer in my face.
“The streets are literally melting”.
Just sounds like a poor asphalt mix design to me.
Spent a good part of my younger years in the Mojave and northern Sonora deserts, freeze to death in the winter and cook in the summer.
Can’t even count the number of people I have had to pull over for and get them out of a bad situation.
Usually European or Asian tourists, car full of people and no water, no hats, no long sleeve shirts, no gloves (can’t touch the hood of a car out there in the summertime without gloves unless you want second or third degree burns).
Running the up hill grade from Stovepipe Wells to Panamint Springs or the other direction to Rhyolite or Beatty.
Running their vehicles as fast as they can go with the air conditioning full on, it’s a wonder they didn’t just melt their engines.
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