Ten Hottest Cities In The World Are In India Right Now, People Feel They Are Living In Furnaces
The acute heatwave that has gripped northern India has thrown normal life out of gear for the past few days. On Sunday the day temperatures crossed 50-degree Celsius in Rajasthans Churu making it the hottest city in the world. In fact two-thirds of India was in grip of the heat wave with the mercury breaching the 45 degree Celsius mark in cities like Delhi Jaipur Kota Hyderabad and Lucknow.
The acute heatwave that has gripped northern India has thrown normal life out of gear for the past few days and is most likely to remain the same at least for a few more days.
On Sunday the day temperatures crossed 50-degree Celsius in Rajasthan's Churu, making it the hottest city in the world. It is not just Churu, other cities like Sri Ganganagar, UP's Banda and Narnol in Haryana were among the hottest places in the world.
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In fact, two-thirds of India was in grip of the heat wave with the mercury breaching the 45 degree Celsius mark in cities like Delhi, Jaipur, Kota, Hyderabad, and Lucknow.
According to the India Meteorological Department, heatwave to severe heatwave conditions to prevail over Northwest, Central and adjoining Peninsular India till Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, there are reports of deaths due to the heatwave. At least two people have reportedly lost their lives on Sunday in Gujarat and some 300 others have suffered dehydration.
As the country continues to boil here are some of the pictures people shared on Twitter showing how bad the situation is.
Hottest place in india#Summer2019 #heatwave pic.twitter.com/DwKKZC06g6
¡ª N Ramani Iyer (@HeyRamani) June 3, 2019
#Heatwave to severe heatwave conditions over #Northwest , central &adjoining east & Peninsular #India during nxt 4-5 days. https://t.co/HcmIeuuIw4
¡ª Ashim K. Mitra ? (@ashimmitra) June 1, 2019
High #LandSurfaceTemperature from #INSAT3D satellite with'Warm Dark spot' from #Sentinel3 of @CopernicusEU over the region on 31May. pic.twitter.com/QWrDZ8nLGt
When you don¡¯t see a vehicle behind in usually busy Sunday afternoons #heatwave #JaipurKiGarmi pic.twitter.com/Ej4wgl62cS
¡ª Shivendra Singh (@Shiv0hum) June 2, 2019
We are nearly half boiled.#heatwave pic.twitter.com/nb3wmkLMgQ
¡ª Balraj Shukla?? (@balrajshukla) June 1, 2019
Temp at Balasore today at 2PM .#heatwave pic.twitter.com/bHSuuQFnVj
¡ª Parsuram Das (@PDas_odisha) May 31, 2019
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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