Heat wave

2023 - 3 - 28

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Prepare Hyderabad, Season's First Heat Wave to Hit City Soon ... (Times Now)

The temperature level in Hyderabad will be in the range of 40-43 degrees Celsius in the state during the heatwave.

[weather](/topic/weather)department's regional centre in Hyderabad, several parts of Telangana including its capital will experience the heatwave from the second week of April. - If outside, cover your head: Use a cloth, hat or umbrella. - Avoid going out in the sun, especially between 12 noon and 3 pm. Though the summer is yet to start officially in the city, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) now said the first heat wave of the season is likely to hit the state soon. [Prepare Hyderabad, Season's First Heat Wave to Hit City Soon; Check Out IMD’s List of Dos and Don’ts](#) Prepare Hyderabad, Season's First Heat Wave to Hit City Soon; Check Out IMD’s List of Dos and Don’ts

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EL Nino effect: Telangana on the boil after unseasonal rain (News9 Live)

Telangana will experience rising temperatures with maximum temperatures touching 40 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Hyderabad ...

Other districts in the state have also recorded high temperatures with Adilabad Urban at 40.2 degrees C and Veltur in Nagarkurnool at 39.9 degrees Celsius. Meanwhile, Nerella in Jagtial district recorded the highest temperature of the season so far with 41.7 degrees Celsius on Monday, Telangana State Development Planning Society data showed. Hyderabad is likely to hover at 41 degrees Celsius.

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1000 years of tree rings confirm 2021 heat waves were historic (Interesting Engineering)

The historic extremity of the 2021 western North America heat wave is confirmed by tree rings dating back 1000 plus years.

In the absence of committed efforts to curtail anthropogenic emissions below intermediate levels (SSP2–4.5), climate model projections indicate a rapidly increasing risk of the PNW regularly experiencing 2021-like extreme summer temperatures, with a 50% chance of yearly occurrence by 2050. [natural warming](https://interestingengineering.com/science/global-warming-facts) trend is thought to have taken hold across large parts of the planet. In summer 2021, the Pacific Northwest region of North America (PNW) experienced a 2-week-long extreme heatwave, which contributed to record-breaking summer temperatures. This suggests, they say, that “communities across the world that have not been historically exposed to extreme heat are likely to experience [greater] morbidity and mortality.” Yet, recent analysis reveals that the last 40 years have been the warmest on record due to warming caused by human activity, with the summer of 2021 being the hottest overall. Most of the hottest years have occurred since 2000.

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