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India and Pakistan already sweltering in ‘new normal’ heatwave conditions | Climate crisis | The Guardian

The summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it’s only April. Much of India and Pakistan is already sweltering in heatwave conditions, in what scientists say is fast becoming the “new normal”.

Temperatures in the region typically climb through May, peaking in June before the monsoon brings relief. But this year, the heat has come early. “As far as Asia and the Indian subcontinent are concerned, there was a quick transition from a short window of spring conditions to summer-like heat,” said GP Sharma, the meteorology president of Skymet, India’s leading private forecaster.

In Delhi, where spring usually offers a short spell of mild temperatures, thermometers have risen past 40C in April – “up to 5C above the seasonal average” – according to a report by ClimaMeter, a platform that tracks extreme weather events.

 

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India and Pakistan already sweltering in ‘new normal’ heatwave conditions | Climate crisis | The Guardian

102, just in April?

Easy Conversion: 25c = 75f, each 5c adds 9f
or 10f if you're lazy and don't need to be very accurate

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

A BlueSky thread - not super long, and worth your read.

Mike Sowden (@mikeachim.bsky.social)

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

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