silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months agoDelhi temperature hits 50.5C as India’s capital records hottest day | Authorities warn of water shortages as temperatures reach nine degrees higher than expectedwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmit.onlineworld@lemmy.worldclimate@slrpnk.networldnews@lemmy.mlworldnews@lemmit.onlineglobalnews@lemmy.zip
arrow-up186arrow-down1external-linkDelhi temperature hits 50.5C as India’s capital records hottest day | Authorities warn of water shortages as temperatures reach nine degrees higher than expectedwww.theguardian.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmit.onlineworld@lemmy.worldclimate@slrpnk.networldnews@lemmy.mlworldnews@lemmit.onlineglobalnews@lemmy.zip
Years of scientific research have found the climate crisis is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-29 months agoSeveral things in combination: It’s sufficiently close to the equator Topography limits air circulation heat dome Dumping the waste from fossil fuel burning into the atmosphere raised it above where temperatures used to get
Several things in combination: