Record temperatures in India which is in the midst of an ongoing heat wave. Thermometers in India’s capital Delhi reached 52.3 degrees Celsius (126.14 F ) on Wednesday, a record for the country.
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Record temperatures in India which is in the midst of an ongoing heat wave. Thermometers in India’s capital Delhi reached 52.3 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, a record for the country.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned of “severe heat-wave conditions” after recording the record temperature in the Delhi suburb of Mungeshpur on Wednesday afternoon.
Issuing a red alert for several parts of northwest India, authorities said the temperatures were over nine degrees higher than expected – but also admitted they were double-checking the Mungeshpur reading to determine its accuracy.
If found to be accurate, the temperature will not only have surpassed 50°C for the first time in Delhi since records began, but will also have smashed the previous national record of 51°C – recorded in Phalodi, a desert region in the arid western state of Rajasthan, in 2016 – by over one degree.