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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

It's not even peak summer yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's the core temperature for a medium rare steak.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

And this will be the coldest summer for the rest of our lives. 😓

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

When Ministry for the Future starts to happen sooner than expected... poor people

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

officials investigating if temperature of 52.9C due to faulty sensor

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

A faulty sensor...A faulty senso responsibility, amirite?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

127°F to be precise

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They're now saying that temperature was a sensor anomaly.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not familiar with these sites but here are some articles.
Did Delhi Temperature Reach 52.9 Degrees? The Truth Behind City's All-Time High Record - timesnownews.com
Was it really 52.9 degrees in Delhi? IMD says 'not sure' amid surging heat - business-standard.com

“The maximum temperature over Delhi NCR varied from 45.2 to 49.1 degrees Celsius across different parts of the city. Mungeshpur's 52.9 degrees Celsius is an outlier compared to other stations, potentially due to sensor error or local factors. IMD is examining the data and sensors,” IMD stated later in the evening.

Still... I can't even imagine that kind of heat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't know if the article was changed but this is from the article

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.

Even the title is (now):

Delhi heatwave: officials investigating if temperature of 52.9C due to faulty sensor