The Mungeshpur weather station in Delhi recorded a record-breaking 52.9 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.
While the authenticity of this temperature is being verified by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), one cannot deny the unusually hot weather the city has been experiencing.
The temperature at Safdarjung, a station that is symbolic of Delhi, was 46.8 degrees Celsius, the highest since 1944.
Rising records
Almost 40% of Earth encounters record temperatures
The Assembled Realm, which is known for its chilly climate, additionally encountered an exceptional 40°C in July 2022.
Besides, Sicily in Italy set another European record by coming to 48.8 °C in 2021.
As indicated by a concentrate via Carbon Brief, a UK-based environmental change distribution, almost 40% of the Earth recorded its most elevated ever day to day temperature between 2013-2023.
This incorporates far off districts like Antarctica.
During this period, India likewise set its own standard with Rajasthan’s Phalodi recording its most noteworthy temperature.
Heatwaves: The single biggest danger to India
Be that as it may, the most noteworthy ever temperature recorded on Earth stays the 56.7 degrees Celsius estimated in Death Valley, California, in 1913.
Aarti Khosla, head of Environment Patterns, communicated profound worry over the expanding heatwave patterns.
She expressed, “It is very worried that yearly patterns in heatwaves now show temperature takeoffs of 5-9 degrees Celsius from the typical summer climate… Heatwaves are obviously the single biggest danger to India’s prosperity today.”
2024 proceeds with pattern of record-breaking worldwide temperatures
The year 2024 was anticipated to be very warm following last year’s record-breaking worldwide temperatures.
This forecast has turned out as expected up to this point, with April denoting the eleventh back to back month of new worldwide normal month to month temperature records, as per the Copernicus Environmental Change Administration.
While yearly mean temperatures over India have ascended by around 0.7 degrees Celsius contrasted with 1900 levels, heatwaves over India are observably more extreme and delayed.
2023 was the hottest year on record
With mid year days still ahead, there is no maxim in the event that temperatures will surpass the record of 2023, which was affirmed as the hottest on record.
As per the European Association’s Copernicus Environmental Change Administration, 2023 was around 1.48 degrees Celsius hotter than the drawn out normal before people started utilizing gigantic measures of non-renewable energy sources.
This record a dangerous atmospheric devation exacerbated outrageous climate events around the world, incorporating heatwaves and out of control fires in Canada as well as dry season and flooding in East Africa.