By Paul Homewood
h/t Dave Ward/Joe Public
Nomeo’s getting her knickers in a twist because it’s hot in India:
NEW DELHI — When the temperature topped 120 degrees (49 Celsius), residents of the northern Indian city of Churu stopped going outside and authorities started hosing down the baking streets with water.
Churu — home to more than 100,000 people — has been the hottest place in India in recent days, part of a summer heat wave suffocating most of the country as temperatures rise above normal even for this sweltering time of year.
According to weather website El Dorado on Wednesday, five of the hottest 15 places on the planet over the previous 24 hours were in India or neighboring Pakistan. In Churu, the mercury hit 118 degrees, down from 122 degrees on Monday. That temperature is just shy of India’s all-time high, recorded in 2016.
In fact, 122F is not even as high as the previous record of 123F set in 1956, which was finally beaten in 2016.
As for Amritsar, which is pictured, daily temperatures in summer have not peaking higher in recent decades. As we so often see, annual average temperatures are only increasing because there fewer really cold days:
Which brings us to the crux of the matter – cold kills many more than heat, even in India, as this study last year showed:
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002619.t002
When do we ever hear the Washington Post or the rest of the shrill alarmists rejoice that winters are milder?
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June 11, 2019 at 01:51PM
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