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World's 15 hottest places are in India, Pakistan as pre-monsoon heat builds
Of the 15 hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours, eight were in India with the others in neighbouring Pakistan, according to weather monitoring website El Dorado.
In Pakistan, Jacobabad continued to be the hottest place with 51 degrees Celsius maximum temperature for the second day running. The highest ever maximum temperature of the Sindh city, which is closer to Balochistan in the north, is 53C that was recorded in 1919.
Padidan, Dadu, Bahawalnagar, Sibbi, Rahim Yar Khan, Rohri, Moenjodero, Larkana, Shaheed Benazirabad, Lahore and Multan also experienced high temperatures from 45 to 50 degrees Celsius.
Roads wore a deserted look throughout the day as it was too hot to brave in the open. A number of people including women and children were seen beating the heat at the Lahore canal. Disruption of power and water supply in many localities like in Samanabad added to the hardships of people.
Churu, a city in the west of the northern state of Rajasthan, recorded the country's highest temperature of 48.9C on Monday, according to the Meteorological Department.
Churu has issued a heat wave advisory and government hospitals have prepared emergency wards with extra air conditioners, coolers and medicines, said Ramratan Sonkariya, the city's additional district magistrate.
Water is also being poured on the roads of Churu, known as the gateway to the Thar desert, to keep the temperature down and prevent them from melting, Sonkariya added.
A farmer from Sikar district in Rajasthan died on Sunday due to heatstroke, state government officials said. Media reported on Friday that 17 had died over the past three weeks due to a heatwave in the southern state of Telangana. A state official said it would confirm the number of deaths only after the causes had been ascertained.
The temperature in New Delhi touched 44.6C on Sunday. One food delivery app, Zomato, asked its customers to greet delivery staff with a glass of cold water.
Heat wave warnings were issued on Monday for some places in western Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh state.
The monsoon, which brings down the heat, is likely to begin on the southern coast on June 6, the weather office said last month.
The three-month, pre-monsoon season, which ended on May 31, was the second driest in the last 65 years, India's only private forecaster, Skymet, said, with a national average of 99 mm of rain against the normal average of 131.5 mm for the season.
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Very hot, take care, avoid direct sun, wear light cloths and drink lots of water to avoid dehydration and sun burns.
Make use of Electrical Stoves and Electrical Cars. Reduce Oil imports and avoid pollution.
Save environment save yourself
After radio active mushroom both counties will cool down
I have read an article some where but I don't remember the writer's name, it had made clear that in 2200 Indian subcontinent will not be a place where humans can live, and due to rise in temperature world next superpowers will be Canada and Russia as rise in temperature will make them workable place and vice versa for Indian subcontinent. It's high time we return back and plant more trees.
Very hot, take care, avoid direct sun, wear light cloths and drink lots of water to avoid dehydration and sun burns.
Save environment plant trees..for future lets save environment.. Please
End conflicts and collaborate in efforts to save the environment
Modern technology owes an apology to ecology. We are multiplying like hobgoblins, building concrete jungles, wiping out Flora and fauna and utilising Earth's resources as if there won't be any future generations. Remember we have not inherited this planet from our ancestors, we have merely borrowed it from our children. Climate change is for real. The only answer is to plant more trees and reduce our carbon footprint.
Heat has no boundaries. It is all because of global warming. Developed nations like US,UK,France has polluted the environment and developing nations like India, Pakistan are bearing the brunt.
My only request to my friends in India and Pakistan is, please produce two or less children per couple so that this part of the world remains habitable.
@Zak, well said.
@leena, shame on you to even suggest that!
Until a week we were having temperature around 10C.
Such heat waves were non existent not long before. They are just an early warning from the nature for us to mend ways. We are fast being engulfed by the tsunami of global warming. We must stop deforestation, grow aggressive farming and afforestation, make water reservoirs for green establishments, renew extensive canal networks, construct solar tower turbines for electricity and integrated green houses, stabilize deserts farmings and apply all related scientific developments, earlier than yesterday.
@Garg vk, Or infect yourself with a deadly virus like Ebola in large enough numbers so that population can be halved over the next decade or so. Baba Ramdev suggested a population control policy but he was derided by people who couldn't care less about the country they live in as much as they care about creating schools of children in their own households.
Our egos as nuclear neighbors while everything else is melting down. Let's get real and action some solutions for us I say!
We couldn't live together but we will definitely die together if our environmental damage continues at this speed.
@Garg Vk, well said. May be one would be good and people will no children would get extra benefit for next ten years just for setting an example.
@Zahid ,
Why?
When some claim they are not kept for fireworks then such thought comes to mind!
@Sristys, electricity os produced by oil mainly, its the dumbest idea ever unless u r using renewable energy source
@Sristys, We make our electricity thru burning oil! :)
This is something beyond boundaries! A common problem that world will acknowledge. Temperature more than 50 degree is not liveable for any planet.
@leena, well said !
We need to compete against each other will full vigour in planting trees and compete on how many trees in how many hectares of land we planted. We really need such Asia Cup and needs to be creative. We can change the environment for better within 10 years if we plant and protect trees.
@Sristys, and solar power!
Same cry every year, why not do something about it.
Perhaps start thinking to plant some trees in the cities.
Pathetically designed housing societies, with no or very little green areas. And the owners build concrete jungle with maximum extended houses with no thought of keeping the environment green.
Joe blog needs to be educated to keep cities green
The author missed Andra Pardesh, and Maharashtra, have places which are hottest in summer. The Indians prepare very effective sharbats like we have Thadal only one, produce in Sindh. Unfortunately the rapport is absent between the people of India & Pak, having good rapport will always yield exchange of important information, and Pakistani could have much lesser heatstrokes if they follow to drink specially made sharbats like their Indian friends. Welcome summer as a blessing, the sun rays and heat together clean up the environment, from germs, bacteria, hence a natural cleansing phenomenon. Precautionary measures are known to people and all must adopt them wisely.
@leena, No you are wrong. I expect snowball earth if it happens.