- That's the temperature at the weather station in shade.
The air temperature is higher in the sun in busy marketplaces from high surface temperature of tarred roads and the thermal island effect of poor Indian urban design. Also on the top floors of buildings it tends to be really bad (roofs are mostly uninsulated).
- There's some interesting, sad, but hopeful science fiction about where this is headed.
Ministry for the Future:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-fo...
Excerpt here:
https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-ministry-for-the-futur...
- Extended read: A Super El Niño Is Increasingly Likely, And It Could Be Record Strong (https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2026-05-07-super-el-ni...)
If true, this summer and maybe winter maybe brutal.
- Wonder how much the removal of trees and bitumening/concreting of surface areas contributes to radiative heating from the sun which then increases the temp of surrounding air, especially on still days.
- Humanity needs to be in a serious hurry to ramp down fossil fuel use and production to curb the megadeaths. Eg the US has been going in the opposite direction for a while, net exporter of oil since 2021.
- I wonder what the wet bulb temperature is, it feels like the day when we have our first true mass casualty event (as opposed to the longer, slower crisies caused by say european heatwaves in the last decade) caused by the climate crisis is getting close.
- As someone who lives in Phoenix, the 48C mark doesn't matter unless we know the humidity...
115C with 10% humidity (71.66F wet bulb) here is hot, but as long as you have water, you're better off here than in Florida with 85F at 90% humidity (87.46F wet bulb).
by leosanchez
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- Currently living in Southern India. The heat is unbearable.
by AlfieJones
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- In the UK we don’t get temperatures like this, but it doesn’t take much heat before parts of the country start feeling completely unprepared for it
by pickleglitch
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- I expect at some point in my lifetime there will be places near the equator that will be rendered uninhabitable by climate change. There will be a climate refugee crisis. The future is looking bleak.
- "Pouring water over transformers". Does this actually do anything?
by SilverElfin
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- They hit 119 degrees in freedom units, for those in the US
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