Heat Wave 2021: These Pictures Show How Extreme Heatwave Is Sizzling The Across The World

Delhi witnessed the first severe heatwave of the year on June 29 with the maximum temperature at Safdarjung Observatory, considered the official marker for the city, rising to 43 degrees Celsius, the highest this year so far.

As the monsoon keeping away from Delhi and nearby areas, more hot days are likely to trouble residents in the national capital, IMD said on Wednesday.?

The midsummer temperature in Jacobabad, a city in PakistanĄ¯s Sindh province, which is situated at the Tropic of Cancer, can soar up to 52ĄãC (126 Fahrenheit).

The city Jacobabad has 200,000 population, where most homes don't have air-con and itĄ¯s too hot to touch the floor.

Canada and Northwestern US is witnessing an unprecedented and dangerous heatwave, forcing schools and COVID-19 testing centres to close while community cooling centres have opened.?

Lytton in British Columbia broke the record for Canada's all-time high on Monday, with a temperature of 47.5 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit), just one day after the village set the previous record at 116 degrees, TRT World reported.

While in the Northwest US cities of Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, temperatures reached... Read More

In Portland, light rail and streetcar service was suspended as power cables melted and as the heat strained the power grid, ABC News reported.

On one of the Interstate routes in Tukwila, Washington, heat-related expansion of the roadway caused a panel of pavement to pop loose.

In Canada too, the freak heatwave has caused the melting of the local infrastructure.