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Citing the extreme heat conditions in the city, Ahmedabad traffic police came up with an initiative through which the citizens could avoid more exposure to the heat. A two-day trial was conducted by the city traffic police on Saturday and Sunday, wherein around 60 traffic signals in the city were kept off between 1 pm […]
The northwest and central regions of India will experience heatwave conditions for the coming three days from Sunday, May 08 with an expected maximum temperature to hover around at 42-44 Degrees Celsius, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) stated in its statement on Saturday. After recording the maximum temperature of 45 Degrees Celsius, the Barmer district […]
As India witnesses a record heatwave across the country with temperatures averaging 43+°C, power cuts outages in most states have only compounded the distress. Powers plants across the country are struggling to keep up with the rising demand of electricity as they struggle with an acute coal shortage. The current crisis is due to the […]
Farah Hussain Children and adolescents, particularly girls, as well as people with existing mental, physical, and medical challenges and elderly people, are at high risk during a heatwave…. Extreme heat has negative impacts on mental health, well-being, life satisfaction, happiness and cognitive performance. Intergovernmental Panel on the Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability(Sixth Assessment […]
The Meteorological Center of Ahmedabad has issued a notification for the heatwave alert for the upcoming five days. The Meteo Department updated the city about the weather on Friday, 29th April. The report mentions the minimum and maximum temperature forecasts from 29th April to 4th April. The notification also mentions the probability of occurrences, high-temperature […]
After almost three days of temperature being around 41 Degrees Celsius in regions of Gujarat, the Indian Meteorological Department on Wednesday stated that heatwave conditions are expected in at least six districts of the state for the next two days. The weather forecasting department on Wednesday in its statement said, “Heatwave conditions are very likely […]
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a warning regarding a spell of a heatwave that Gujarat can experience in the next five days. The forewarning mentioned that in association with the dry weather situation, the heatwaves might last from 9th to 13th April 2022. IMD gave a day-wise weather forecast for different districts of […]
The summers in India have been upsurging with an unusual velocity. Yesterday, the Barmer district in Rajasthan hit a maximum temperature of 44.5℃ at 2:30 PM. Chances are that Barmer breaks its May 2014 record of 46.8℃ in the upcoming days. Other cities of Rajasthan have also recorded high temperatures and made it to the […]
As April sets in, summer is all set to usher high temperatures in the country and according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), North West, Central and North-Eastern regions of India will likely be experiencing a higher temperature than normal. “During April, normal to above normal minimum temperatures are likely over most parts of North […]
