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Humans “boil in their own skin” at 48 degrees Celsius, the maximum temperature recorded at Khammam in Telangana which has become the focal point of a blistering heat wave sweeping through swathes of India on Sunday, killing nearly 500 people.
Allahabad was the second hottest at 47.7°C, six degrees above normal; Nandigama in Andhra Pradesh was a notch under as it sizzled at 47°C while Odisha’s Angul district tipped the scales at 46.7°C.
In comparison, the national capital felt cooler at 43.5°C on Sunday.
The Centre for Holistic Development, an NGO in Delhi, said the searing heat had claimed the lives of 186 people till Saturday, 80% of them homeless. Authorities in the Capital haven’t released any official death figure, though.
Officials in the twin states of Telangana and Andhra reported over 400 deaths from sunstrokes and heat-linked ailments. “We have recorded 246 deaths from Wednesday till Sunday. Prakasam and Visakhapatnam districts are the worst affected with 57 and 53 deaths respectively,” said Dhanunjaya Reddy, director, Andhra disaster management department.
The Telangana government has put the toll at 188 — from April 15 till Sunday — but most of the deaths were reported over the past few days because of unusually high temperatures.
Andhra chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has advised people to take remedial measures when out in the sun. His government announced Rs 1 lakh to the families of heat wave victims.
Read more here. (Hindustan Times)
Allahabad was the second hottest at 47.7°C, six degrees above normal; Nandigama in Andhra Pradesh was a notch under as it sizzled at 47°C while Odisha’s Angul district tipped the scales at 46.7°C.
In comparison, the national capital felt cooler at 43.5°C on Sunday.
The Centre for Holistic Development, an NGO in Delhi, said the searing heat had claimed the lives of 186 people till Saturday, 80% of them homeless. Authorities in the Capital haven’t released any official death figure, though.
Officials in the twin states of Telangana and Andhra reported over 400 deaths from sunstrokes and heat-linked ailments. “We have recorded 246 deaths from Wednesday till Sunday. Prakasam and Visakhapatnam districts are the worst affected with 57 and 53 deaths respectively,” said Dhanunjaya Reddy, director, Andhra disaster management department.
The Telangana government has put the toll at 188 — from April 15 till Sunday — but most of the deaths were reported over the past few days because of unusually high temperatures.
Andhra chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has advised people to take remedial measures when out in the sun. His government announced Rs 1 lakh to the families of heat wave victims.
Read more here. (Hindustan Times)
