Heat wave in India 2019

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Heat wave May / June 2019
Maximum temperatures June 10th (NASA GEOS5)
Maximum temperatures June 10th (NASA GEOS5)
storm Heatwave
Data
Emergence Mid May 2019
resolution June 12, 2019
Maximum temperature 50.8 ° C ( Churu , IN, 2.6. )
consequences
affected areas India

In May and June 2019 India and Pakistan suffered a severe heat wave .

The highest measured temperature occurred in Churu , Rajasthan and was 50.8 ° C. The heatwave lasted 32 days through June 12, 2019, making it the second longest ever recorded.

Numerous people died as a result of the heat wave. It also greatly exacerbated water scarcity , sparking fighting that resulted in deaths in early June. In addition, electricity consumption in Delhi peaked at 6,686  megawatts , breaking all previous records.

meteorology

The heat wave set in in mid-May. The Indian weather authority issued a heat warning in Rajasthan and nearby areas such as Delhi at the beginning of June . At one point in time, 11 of the 15 warmest places on earth were in India.

The high temperatures have broken numerous records in Indian cities. On June 2, 2019, the temperature in the city of Churu was 50.8 ° C, only two tenths of a degree Celsius below the nation's highest temperature of 51 ° C, which occurred during the 2016 heat wave. On June 9, 2019, temperatures in Prayagraj reached 48.9 ° C, breaking all previous records in the metropolis. On June 10, 2019, the temperature in Delhi reached 48 ° C, also a new record high for the city.

The cause of the heat wave was a significantly delayed monsoon , it did not arrive until June 6th in Kerala and June 12th in Delhi, with the associated sudden drops in temperature. The end was accompanied by flash floods and sandstorms .

The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology has identified several factors as a possible cause: "El Niño Modoki", an irregular El Niño in which the central Pacific is warmer than the eastern part, as well as the loss of moisture in the soil due to a lack of trees, resulting in one less evapotranspiration and greater heat transfer into the atmosphere.

Since 2004, India has 11 of its 15 warmest years since the beginning of the temperature recording experience.

Effects

The heat wave resulted in numerous direct deaths and illnesses. In the state of Bihar , according to Al Jazeera , 184 people had died due to heat by June 18, and according to the Indian television station Zee News , the death toll there on June 19, 2019 was 139. But deaths are also known in other regions of the country. By the end of May 2019, Maharashtra had reported 8 deaths and 456 cases of illness due to heat, Telangana reported at least 17 deaths, and Andhra Pradesh 3 deaths and 433 diagnosed cases of heat stroke.

In 2013, in response to the growing number of deaths from heat waves, the Indian government began taking life-saving measures. In Ahmedabad , for example, school days were shortened, government work programs were discontinued and free water was distributed in populated areas, and public gardens were opened to provide shade for residents. Public health professor Parthasarathi Ganguly said these changes reduced the number of heat deaths by 800 in 2014 .

Conflicts over water shortages have nonetheless occurred. On June 7, six people were stabbed to death near a water tanker in Jharkhand during a fight and one man was killed in a similar fight in Tamil Nadu . Two men were seriously injured in a fight for water in Madhya Pradesh on June 5, while a water tanker driver was beaten up in another fight the previous day. In response to the fighting over water in Madhya Pradesh, police officers were deployed to guard water tankers and taps from June 8th .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  8. ↑ Shounak Dasgupta: World's 15 hottest places are in India, Pakistan as pre-monsoon heat builds . In: Reuters . June 3, 2019. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  9. ↑ Himanshu Mishra: Delhi At 48 Degrees, Highest Ever In June As Heat Wave Sweeps North India . In: NDTV . June 10, 2019. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  10. ^ Delhi records highest temperature in history . In: Khaleej Times . June 10, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  11. ^ Delhi records all-time high of 48 degrees Celsius in June, heatwave to continue . In: The Times of India . June 10, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  12. ↑ Monsoon finally hits Kerala coast after week's delay, says IMD. indiatoday, June 8, 2019.
  13. ↑ North India sees weather change: Flash floods kill 2 in J&K, Delhi hit by dust storm indiatoday, June 12, 2019.
  14. ^ Heat Takes Heavy Toll Across India . In: The Weather Channel . May 31, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  15. ↑ Study Shows Increase in Heatwave Conditions from Next Year . In: The Weather Channel . May 20, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  16. ↑ India's heatwave turns deadly . In: Al Jazeera . 18th June 2019.
  17. ^ Heatwave claims lives of 139 people in Bihar . In: Zee News . June 19, 2019. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
  18. ↑ Roli Srivastava: India heatwave deaths rise to 36 poorest workers worst hit . In: Reuters . June 12, 2019.
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  20. ↑ Michael Safi: India slashes heatwave death toll with series of low-cost measures . In: The Guardian . June 2, 2019. Accessed June 2019.