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India
Chenniites continued to reel under harsh heatwave conditions with the mercury soaring to 41 Deg C (105 Deg F) today and the weathermen predicting that the city will have no respite for the next 48 hours.
The maximum temperature in the city continued to remain above the 40 Deg C mark since the heat wave conditions set in, according to the weather bureau.
India
The searing heat wave conditions continued in many parts of the country with a man dying due to sunstroke in Kolkata as the nationwide toll this summer mounted to 39. The national capital blazed at 42.2 degrees Celsius, the highest this season, as hot surface winds that blew across the city during the day added to the misery of the people. Heat wave in most pockets of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh intensified as maximum temperatures were four to six notches above normal. Hisar in Haryana remained the hottest place with a high of 45.2 degrees. Long power cuts and shortage of water supply added to the woes of the people.
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GEORGIA - Drought not over; Lake Lanier Lower Than This Time Last Year. The report is grim. Lake Lanier is up from where it was at wintertime but it's still 13 and a half feet below where it should be. Areas like Lake Lanier have shown improvement but the forecast for the summer and drought relief is bleak. "We are at the best that we can expect probably through October." It's a sobering statement from the Georgia state climatologist. The consensus among drought experts is that the UNPRECEDENTED drought is not over.
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California, USA
Another April heat wave sent temperatures soaring throughout Southern California, where the mercury reached 103 in Santa Ana, 102 in Fullerton and 100 in Fillmore on Sunday. And there was no relief at the beach. Oxnard SET A RECORD with a 99 degree peak reading, it was A RECORD 95 degrees at Los Angeles International Airport, 94 in San Diego and 87 degrees at Santa Monica Pier. Two weeks ago, record temperatures were also set in a weekend heat wave.
India
Maharashtra is experiencing a heat wave and Pune is no exception with the mercury levels touching an UNPRECEDENTED 42.1 degrees for this season on Thursday. This was THE THIRD HIGHEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED by the Met department in the city for April, the highest instance being 43.3 degrees on April 30, 1897. There will be no reprieve for the citizens in the coming days with the met officers forecasting a steady rise in temperature. The heat wave can be attributed to the northerly winds which were responsible for hot dry air advection. On Wednesday, Akola recorded 45.3 degrees, the highest in the country, followed by Nagpur recording 44.6 degrees. On Thursday, the state saw most of the districts record temperatures above 40 degrees
India
After heat wave, it’s water scare - Lakes drying up fast. If the scorching summer was not bad enough, Jharkhand is now on the threshold of an acute water crisis with authorities detecting a 30cm depletion over last year’s findings of the groundwater table this year. As a result, there has been a remarkable decrease of water level in three reservoirs around the state capital, one of them — Rukka Dam — witnessing a decrease of six feet over the corresponding period last year. In April last year the water level of Rukka revolved around 17ft. This year it is at less than 11ft. "Moreover, pre-monsoon groundwater level is also constantly declining as mining of groundwater through deep-borings has increased manifold.” The condition is the same with Gonda dam in the posh Kanke area, where many multi-storeyed buildings have been constructed in the past five years. “If water level decreases at this pace, supply has to be stopped within the next 15 days."
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Heat wave, water crisis hit wildlife in Orissa
There is no respite of heat waves for the wild animals. With each passing day wild animals, including elephants and tigers in the Reserves and Wildlife Sanctuaries, are facing a shortage of water. The water crisis in many part of the state in this summer summer has been driving animals out of their habitat to quench their thirst but non-availability of waters has hit the daily life of wild animals and most of aged elephants and big cats have reportedly been suffering a lot. Meanwhile, Satkosia Tiger Reserve region, rich in bio-diversity, has been in the grip of gnawing fire for several weeks. Both flora and fauna are in a state of peril. Image Above: An elephant in nandankanan is being showered with water to get rid of hostile heat in Bhubaneswar.
ISRAEL - The Israel Nature & National Parks Protection Authority is warning those traveling not to go hiking in the Judaean Desert or in the western Negev because of severe heat conditions. Due to the serious heat wave, rescue units and fire fighting units are on higher levels of readiness.
India
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Intense heat wave conditions killed 10 people in Orissa as the temperatures crossed the 42 degrees Celsius mark in the state. Most parts of the northern pains also experienced above-normal temperatures Sunday. The maximum temperature in the national capital rose again to be around 38 degrees Celsius Sunday butr the minimum stayed at a comfortable 20 degrees.
The weather office in its bulletin said that most parts of the northern plains, central India and parts of Rajasthan and Maharashtra had temperatures 3-4 degrees Celsius above the normal.
The Met Office says that the mercury could rise further in the next three days till Wednesday. The highest temperature recorded was 43 degrees Celsius at Malegaon in Maharashtra.
Israel
Heat wave triggers wildfires. Emergency officials in Israel have ordered the evacuation of hundreds of hikers from wilderness areas plagued by an outbreak of wildfires. A stifling heat wave has sparked a rash of fires in the Golan Heights and Beit Shemesh areas, including popular hiking trails in the Carmela forest.
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CALIFORNIA - HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET throughout Southern California on Sunday - many in the same areas that also set records a day earlier. A high-pressure system that settled over the West Coast sent the temperature at the San Diego Wild Animal Park near Escondido soaring to 97 degrees, the highest for the day in 24 years. Los Angeles International Airport baked under temperatures of 96 degrees. The previous record was 90 degrees on the same day in 1947. The Santa Monica Pier heated up to 86 degrees, breaking the record of 78 degrees set on the same day in 1993.
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Australia
Adelaide's 15-day heatwave was A ONCE IN 3,000 YEAR OCCURRENCE, an atmospheric scientist says. "The odds are about the same as tossing 12 coins and getting all heads or all tails." "This heat wave is close to being off the scale." Nuriootpa, in the Barossa Valley, recorded 13 days over 35 degrees - a ONE IN 1,000 YEAR EVENT, while Loxton in the state's Riverland had 15 days over 35 degrees which was a ONE IN 200 YEAR EVENT. Adelaide's 15-day heatwave surpassed the previous capital city heatwave record of Perth, which experienced 10 days over 35 degrees in February 1988. The all-time national heatwave record was set in Marble Bar in northern Western Australia, which had 160 consecutive days at or above 37.8 degrees celsius (or 100 degrees fahrenheit) in the summer of 1923-24.
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AUSTRALIA - The record-breaking heatwave across south-eastern Australia is predicted to ease today, but farmers are already counting the cost in the millions of dollars. Temperatures in Adelaide hit 40.5 degrees yesterday, the 15th straight day they have soared above 35 degrees. The heat has had a devastating effect on South Australia's farming sector and raised serious doubts about the sustainability of irrigation in the lower Murray River. Apple and pear growers have suffered severe damage from heat and wind. "Most crops, like soft vegetables, can tolerate three or four days of extreme temperatures, but that's about the limit." The situation is at its most severe in the final reaches of the Murray River, including Lake Alexandrina, where water levels are so low even farmers with irrigation rights are finding their pumps left high and dry. Wine grape yields have fallen by half or more in just a week. Melbourne has a chance to break the 68-year-old record for its hottest March. The city is averaging 30.7 degrees for the month, and the record is 28.9 degrees. "It's a tough record to break, and the fact that we're in a position to possibly break it is an indication of an exceptional month." Image Above: Water levels are so low near the Murray mouth, and salinity levels so high, that most irrigators cannot use it, and are buying water from elsewhere.
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HEAT WAVE RECORDS HAVE BEEN BROKEN across Eyre Peninsula this month, in the HOTTEST MARCH ON RECORD.
Australia
S. Australia faces more serious outbreaks of fire after a 13-day heatwave which is expected to continue until Tuesday. Hot weather has contributed to difficult firefighting conditions, including a 150-hectare blaze at Willunga in Adelaide's south, which gutted a house and left nine firefighters suffering from burns and smoke inhalation. Adelaide's forecast maximum of 40 degrees Friday was the 12th consecutive day of temperatures above 35 degrees - the LONGEST HEATWAVE EVER in any Australian capital city. South Australia could expect deteriorating conditions if the weather plays havoc, and therefore fanning potential fires. "This is a VERY UNUSUAL WEATHER PATTERN for South Australia...with one or two days of extreme weather, then the change come through which makes it worse for a short while. Then the weather moderates, so you get day after day of that."
Experts say this kind of heat is a RARE weather event for this time of year. 'We've only ever had eight 40s before in March in over 140 years of records." Heatwave Record
Fire bans are in force across parts of four states as heatwave conditions continue across South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and southern New South Wales.
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TEXAS - Firefighters battled major wildfires on a hot and windy Friday in just about every corner of the parched state.
Temperatures in McAllen rose to RECORD LEVELS Friday. The temperature reached 101 degrees at 3 p.m. That mark breaks the previous record for March 14 set in 1946 and tied in 1971. The previous record for that date was 94 degrees. The 101 degrees reached Friday is UNUSUAL for this time of year in the Rio Grande Valley. The average for March 14 is 81 degrees.
Image: Waves of heated air distort the view of cars driving down South 10th Street on Friday afternoon. Temperatures climbed to 101 degrees, breaking the record of 94 degrees set in 1946 for McAllen.
Australia
Adelaide has today BROKEN THE RECORD FOR THE LONGEST HEAT WAVE EVER RECORDED IN AN AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL CITY.
The temperatures have hit 40 degrees sparking an explosive bushfire threat, and causing heat stress for the elderly. It is the 'Great Southern Scorcher' - for eleven days the temperature has topped 35 degrees, a new Australian record.
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An UNUSUAL late burst of summer hit Bathurst. Summer has just arrived in Bathurst – about three months late. After February, traditionally one of the hottest months of the year passed with only one daytime maximum temperature rising above 30 degrees Celsius, the third week of March is about to deliver a summer they never really had. After temperatures soared nearly five degrees above average to 32C on Tuesday, the Bureau of Meterology has predicted four straight days of hotter than average weather in the region. The run of hotter than normal days this month is ranging nearly 3C above the average 27.3C maximum for March and, this week at least, three days will be within three or four degrees of the record high of 35.3C for the month recorded on March 13, 1998. Bathurst’s minimum temperatures have also been running higher than average.
Australia
It has been 75 years since Adelaide has seen such an extraordinary heat wave in autumn, and the weather bureau says there is no relief in sight. Adelaide is bracing itself for another week of searing heat in the mid to high thirties Celsius. If Tuesday's temperature reaches one degree more than the expected top of 34 degrees Celsius it will make nine consecutive days of more than 35C. Such temperatures have not been recorded in Adelaide since an eight-day heat wave in 1934.
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Australia
A HEATWAVE in Queensland has put 21 people in hospital.
Ambulances were called to homes across the state's southeast as temperatures rose to 40C yesterday, an Emergency Management Queensland spokesman said. Queensland sizzles
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KENYA - rangers and residents are struggling to control bush fires that have engulfed a third of one of the nation's best-known wildlife parks. The fire was accidentally started in a nearby village and has already destroyed large patches of the 188 sq km Lake Nakuru National Park. When the fire began, grass parched from a recent lack of rain made fertile fuel. Most famous for the hordes of flamingos that gather on its lake shore, the park in central Kenya is home to 450 species including white rhinos, giraffes and lions. Game wardens said the fire appeared to have largely spared the wildlife, although a reporter saw a charred turtle.
Great Britain
Bleak outlook for the UK
There is a 25% chance that a severe heatwave will strike England and kill more than 6000 people before 2017 if no action is taken to deal with the health effects of climate change. More than 3000 people could die in an intense summer hot spell in southeast England, with just as many more dying from heat related deaths over the summer. Until 2012, when London stages the summer Olympic Games, the odds of thousands dying in summer heat each year will be one in 40, and thousands more could die each year as a result of other effects of global warming and air pollution.
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Australia
Perth looks set to have its longest heatwave in 20 years. Residents are set to swelter with nine days straight of temperatures in the mid to late 30s. Perth temperatures have reached 35C or higher since Sunday and weather experts say there is no reprieve in sight. The record was 10 days in 1975. A strong high system and the low pressure system threatening to turn into a cyclone in the Kimberley region are blamed for the scorching temperatures. The combination of the two systems was pushing a lot of hot, dry air from inland Australia across the continent and into metropolitan Perth. “Basically it’s becoming a little bit more heated every day as we go along and we are likely to be some of the hottest temperatures in Australia over the next few days.” January saw above average temperatures in Perth, with February on target to be a similar story. Power consumption hit RECORD LEVELS on Monday. It was THE MOST ELECTRICITY USED IN THE NETWORK AT ANY ONE POINT IN TIME EVER.
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BRITAIN - temperatures reached double figures and Britain enjoyed its warmest day of the year so far on Saturday. The blue skies continued Sunday and forecasters say there should be more sunshine until Thursday. Forecasters described the temperatures as "VERY UNUSUAL", with southern parts of the country hitting 17C on Saturday. "We are enjoying some high pressure at the moment which is bringing with it some very settled weather. But it is VERY UNUSUAL for it to be quite this warm. Usually, if it is so clear and sunny at this time of year, it will be chilly."
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Northern Territory Australia
The Northern Territory outback town of Tennant Creek has had its longest heatwave on record, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees for the 19th day in a row.
The Bureau of Meteorology says the mercury reached 41.2 degrees just after 3pm yesterday afternoon.
The bureau's climate services manager Sam Cleland says Tennant Creek has also had its second-longest summer dry period.
"They had 30 consecutive days without rain, which is close to their record. Back in January-February 1972 they actually went 31 days at that point."
NOTE: THE CLIMATE SKEPTICS INSIST GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX. IT'S SUMMER SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR, AND GW IS STILL ALIVE AND KICKING. YES, THE EXTREME WEATHER CONTINUES ON ITS QUEST, THERE APPEARS TO BE NO REST FOR THE WEARY
Australia
As the eastern states are pummelled by raging storms and flash floods, Perth is set to swelter through a Christmas-week heatwave. And the rest of summer is expected to be warmer than usual. January to March is expected to make up for the late onset of warmer weather this year. There is more than a 50 per cent chance that this summer will exceed the average median temperature. Perth had endured seven days above 40C in 2007, compared to the average of three days a year. If the temperature again exceeds 40C in the next week, this year will set the record for the most number of very hot days. This heatwave follows several weeks of UNUSUALLY cool weather. In fact, Perth is set to record only its 10th year, since records began in 1897, in which November has been warmer than December. The average temperature so far this month was 24.9C, compared with the December average of 28.8C. November this year was Perth's WARMEST AND SUNNIEST ON RECORD, due primarily to an absence of cold fronts. The average maximum was 28.5C, compared with the historical average of 26.2C. Perth's sunshine stands in stark contrast to the wild weather ravaging Australia's eastern seaboard.
Since midnight Friday, a RECORD 171 millimetres of rain has fallen at Coonamble in New South Wales' north-west. There a large number of rural property owners isolated because their roads are washed away or impassable because of heavy rain. Image: A storm cloud passes over a property in Newstead, Victoria.
Chile, S.A.
(11/20)Tuesday’s peak temperature of 34 degrees Celsius (93.2 degrees Fahrenheit) fell just short of Monday’s high of 34.8 degrees Celsius (94.6 degrees Farenheit), the hottest temperature recorded in Santiago so far this month and ONE OF THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURES REGISTERED IN NOVEMBER IN RECENT HISTORY. The heat wave has not been limited to Santiago: Cities across Chile’s central zone reported high temperatures on Monday, and two forest fires were sparked in the Valparaíso region. Experts at Chile’s Meteorological Office attribute the heat to La Niña, a phenomenon characterized by abnormally low water temperatures in large expanses of the Pacific Ocean between the coasts of South America and Oceania. The phenomenon, usually limited to the winter months, has exhibited anomalous behavior this year by peaking in the spring and summer. The projected result is extreme summer heat in Chile’s Central Valley, including temperatures that may surpass Santiago’s highest-ever recorded temperature of 37.2 degrees Celsius (nearly 99 degrees Fahrenheit), registered in 1915.
Arizona, USA- After the WARMEST SUMMER ON RECORD since records were first recorded in 1895, they’re moving into fall with RECORD TEMPERATURES as well. Monday, they broke the old record of 92, set in 1980 at Phoenix Sky Harbor, with a high of 93. A strong area of high pressure will continue to dominate their weather for the rest of the work week, and near/ above record high temps will continue.
New York, USA
Another RECORD WAS SMASHED Monday as the Southern Tier measured RECORD-BREAKING HEAT for the third time in five days. Monday's high of 82 degrees shattered the old record of 76 degrees for Oct. 8 recorded in 1993 at the Greater Binghamton Airport. The normal high temperature for the date is 59 degrees. The Weather Service recorded record-breaking high temperatures for the individual dates - on Thursday with 85 degrees, Friday with 85 degrees, and Saturday with 82 degrees.
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WASHINGTON D.C. - The Washington region is in the grips of a heat wave, and they cracked some longtime records. Thermometers at Dulles International Airport reached 91 degrees, BREAKING THE RECORD set in 1982. Thurgood Marshall-Baltimore Washington International Airport topped out at 89 degrees, cracking the 88-degree record set in 1931. And Reagan National Airport flirted with the 88-degree record set in 1931, reaching 87 degrees on Monday. The normal high temperature for October 8th is 71 degrees.
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California, USA
Photo: Children cool off standing under irrigation sprinklers at Warner Ranch Park in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles
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Authorities say extremely high temperatures in Los Angeles, California have contributed to the deaths of at least 25 people.
The region has been suffering under temperatures that have soared past 40 degrees Celsius for more than a week.
The heat wave has also caused a strain on the electricity supply in southern California as thousands of residents seek relief by turning on air conditioners. Utility crews have been working to restore power to tens of thousands of homes.
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