Authorities warn of water shortages with temperatures 9C higher than expected and 1.9C above previous countrywide highpoint
  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    32·
    6 months ago

    Isn’t that pretty close to an unsafe wet bulb temperature at any humidity?

    It’s not even peak summer yet.

    • sinkingship@mander.xyz
      2·
      6 months ago

      I also thought about wet bulb and checked the humidity in Delhi, which seems to be just 7 % or so. According to wet bulb calculators that’s still good, like around 23 °C wet bulb.

      Interestingly the wet bulb temperature calculators that I tried only work until 50 °C, so that was what I put in.

      At 50 °C you need about 35 % humidity to get to 35 °C wet bulb.

      Regarding your second point: If I’m not mistaken, the hottest month in the region is around May. The temperature is influenced by monsoons, and although the sun peaks higher in summer, it is generally also more cloudy and rain cools of the surface. That’s why usually temperatures peak just before rain season.

  • Obi@sopuli.xyz
    241·
    6 months ago

    Sounds like a temperature where you’re starting to slowly be steamed/cooked alive, fucking hell.

  • XTL@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    6 months ago

    officials investigating if temperature of 52.9C due to faulty sensor

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      Adding to that

      The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said it was examining the data and sensors at the Mungeshpur station after an unusually large variation in temperatures was recorded at the station compared to others.

      So the title seems really misleading. Did The Guardian change it, was it earlier the same as the post title?

  • Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    Instead of building only roads and cutting down trees. Lets start planting trees as a thing. And ask for climate reforms in the country with the politicians instead of religion wars.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      5·
      6 months ago

      And ask for climate reforms in the country with the politicians

      this is the hard part. you will want to take them and the moneyed interests that back them off the map if you want any meaningful change. they’ve shown begging wont work.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.world
      314·
      6 months ago

      Ah, yes. I see. My friend, when you serve the one true religion you feeeeel it deep down, as though god is talking through your feelings.

      You can’t just allow people from false religions to galavant around claiming they are part of the one true religion. And, see, since we’re all immortal (at least in the true religion) this world doesn’t matter really, except where religion counts.

      Gaaaaaaah. The whole world filled with people with perfectly good noses, and yet they breathe through their mouths.

    • Arcade@lemmy.wtf
      19·
      6 months ago

      Construction workers have mostly stopped working between noon and 4pm. “The metal rods I’m working with are too hot to touch. Even if I restart work at 5pm, the rods are burning and the heat from the sparks makes it worse,” said Babu Ram, a welder working on a block of flats in New Friends Colony, south of the city centre.

      Is this also a sensor anomoly?

    • sinkingship@mander.xyz
      9·
      6 months ago

      Do you have a link to source of that? I’m pretty sure there are many sensors measuring the temperatures in a city that size.