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Meanwhile In India, It Is So Hot The Roads Are Melting, "One Billion People Impacted"
While we patiently await Wall Street's weathermen, formerly known as economists, to blame the next swoon in US GDP on California's relentless drought, now in its fourth year, we wonder how many double seasonally-adjusted, pro-forma, non-GAAP GDP points India's blistering heatwave will bring. Because if California thinks it has it bad, India has it far worse.
According to the National Post, soaring summer temperatures in India have left more than 1,400 people dead over the past month, officials said Thursday. Most of the 1,412 heat-related deaths so far have occurred in Andhra Pradesh and neighbouring Telangana, where temperatures have soared up to 47 C, according to government figures.
AccuWeather described India's scorching weather as the most intense heat wave in India in recent years, adding that "a very active typhoon season, combined with drought in much of India, could have a significant impact on lives and property for more than a billion people in Asia during the summer of 2015."
"The rains which have eluded us for the last couple of years have created serious drought conditions,” said state minister K.T. Rama Rao in Telangana, which was carved out of Andhra Pradesh as a separate state just last year.
India's response to the stifling heat? In line with that of the Greek government and stockholders everywhere in the new normal: hope.
“This is unprecedented … so there is a little bit of panic,” he said. “Hopefully the monsoon will be on time. Hopefully we will receive rain very, very soon.”
For the locals it's no laughing matter: "If I don’t work due to the heat, how will my family survive?” said construction worker Mahalakshmi, who earns a daily wage of about $3.10 in Nizamabad, a city about 150 kilometres north of the state capital of Hyderabad.
Other examples of just how bad it is:
Volunteers were passing out pouches of salted buttermilk or raw onions — both thought to be hydrating. People used handkerchiefs and scarves to block searing winds and stifling air from their faces.
Across the country, teenagers flocked to water basins and rivers to cool off. Many adults took refuge atop woven cots in the shade.
DasBoys dive into a water tank on a hot summer day in New Delhi Wednesday
Newspapers devoted full pages to covering the heat wave and its effects, with headlines saying “Homeless bake in tin shelters” and “birds & animals drop dead.”
An Indian farmer pushes his bicycle past a parched paddy field in Ranbir Singh Pura, about 34 km (21 miles) from Jammu, India.
In cities like New Delhi, crowds of office workers gathered around stalls selling fruit drinks and iced water, while police officers wearing sweat-soaked shirts squinted into the sun while directing road traffic.
ImagesAn Indian man uses a rickshaw to transport ice from an ice factory in Amritsar on Wednesday.
“We are even spraying the reptiles,” Delhi Zoo curator Riyaz Khan said, noting fans were also set up to keep enclosures cooler, while the animals were also receiving glucose in their drinking water.
The good news: cooling monsoon rains are expected to arrive next week in the southern state of Kerala and gradually advance north in coming weeks.
In the meantime, it is so hot the read is literally melting as shown in the following clip.
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can somebody melt Washington D.C. please!
Maybe Kali could run a pipeline from the Berkley Pit to the ... er, UC Berkley (Pit) ... I hear Montana will sell 'em that water!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit
Regards,
Cooter
The read is definitely melting.
'Oly Cow, man.
Even when I lived in Indiana the asphalt road would melt in the summer.
How is any of this nonsense new? Isn't it always hot and dry in India in the summer?
passing out raw onions to indians. Might just make it smell better...
That's alright, we'll just outsource more jobs to them.
This is further proof of global warming. You people must stop denying the truth. We're all going to burn up in little balls of flame.
Some things are better burnt!
It is just God saying: You got too many fucking people.
way too many and the same goes double for red china.
Looks like the highly irradiated section of the Pacific Ocean is getting good rainfall. So we have that going for us & can expect nice crop production.
So there's hope....good.
#2016
but I was assured Global Warming was all lies created by Al Gore! Oh, Im So confused now!
Stupid Indians. Why don't they just drink Brawndo?
Trademarked....they get slurpees.
Squishies, I think you mean.
the man with the ice blocks is on to something...
Till he hits traffic.
Pokari Sweat
I worked with a woman from India in 1987. She told me that in her part of India it often exceeded 130 degrees in the summer. This mild heat wave is nothing new, nor is it caused by Al Gore and his huge house and private jets.
You mean 130 Fnot
The Regional Indian does melt because he is ICE cold baby!
47C=116F
almost too hot for the yeast to activate properly to rise the naan dough
They wrote:
..where temperatures have soared up to 47 C, according to government figures.
What they should have wrote:
..where temperatures have soared up to 47 C (116.6 F), according to government figures.
Seriously how is be are we supposed to know 47 C thingies are – we is are be American dang it. What a stupid fuq
We Americans haven't adopted the international metric system yet, but we're inching our way towards it.
We put our foot down long ago.
(sorry)
Better put some BRICS in the road.
I wonder if India is getting the old HAARP treatment for supporting BRICS?
ZH, this is not a story. In Canada the roads can get like that on hot days in the summer. Also, that video showing a melted road wasn't melted at all (and the video said it was 45 degrees celsius). The cars and bikes didnt make tire marks, so the road wasn't even soft, let alone melting.
Joke
Temperature in Andhra Pradesh has routinely exceeded 45C only in the last ten years. No global warming indeed.
Ever. We have the estimated and seasonally adjusted temperature data going back over 500,000 years and have never ever seen anything like this until the last decade, squirting up like a hockey stick! Amazing I tell ya', fucking amazing.
Well they won't ever have to worry about having water to flush toilets.
The road has probably been like that for 25 years....
Looks like a repair job where the tar was just poured on the street.
shovel ready - bullish!
Dear indians, africans, chinesse, latinos and muslims. Please dont mind this threat and keep overpopulating this planet. Make at least 10+ kids per family. Take as much wood as you need. This is not your fault, its either government`s or just a nature. With regards, sincerely yours: <Sarc>.
You reminded me of a 22 year old tattooed welfare mother I know in So Cal Six children by six different fathers all in prison - except for the one who was shot in a driveby.
The fact that you know her does not cast you in a very good light. Are you one of the father's with wi fi in cellblock D?
No Amish? No haredi Jews?
concrete doesn't melt at these temperatures
and catastrophic recharge is a basic engineering
and engendering principle. here the difference,
runoff versus recharge, pick one.
In AZ we call that summer. Poor road construction doesn't hold up in extreme temperatures and anytime you have extremes the frail are at risk, considering the population of India the fatalities don't seem that high.
1,400 out of 1.2 billion is a significant data point because...?
1,400. That's almost the number of children that died of malaria in Africa... yesterday, and every day of the year.
It's pathetic how the deluded global warming crowd takes every data point and sites it as evidence. I guess that will happen when a religious cult hijacks science.
By the way, the average high temp in that part of India is 40C, so it's not so out of the ordinary as is made to seem. It will be above 110 in Death Valley this weekend, about 10 degrees above normal, but you don't hear anyone whining about that. Oh, people are smart enough not to live there.
Got another shade sail installed today. And used the clothesline instead of the clothes drier. Trying to save electricity every way we can. Saves money, and since the power generating plant burns oil, hopefully helps save the planet. Feel like we are fighting a retreating action, but all small victories are important victories.
TOO MANY PEOPLE! :-(
Inuit warn that the sun does not rise and set in the same place (in several villages).
We recently had 4 terromotos in less than 30 days above 7 on the Richter.
Two huge Tsunames.
Numerous volcanoes manifesting.
I'm 52 years old and when I was little, moon-shaped "C" was "crescent" shaped "D" was dwindling.
Today the two are most often in the form of "U" (I'm in the Southern Hemisphere, near Brasília (capital of Brazil).
I sometimes have the impression that something is wrong in the relationship Earth / Sun / LUA.
Something that our sensors do not notice, were not calibrated for this.
Only empirical observation.
The migration of Magnetic Poles may be an explanation but I do not think that's the one.
Well, they are my humble impressions.
:-)
I too have sensed a disturbance in the force. There is a somwhat new star in the sky now and it seems to hold its position through the evening instead of changing with the rotation of the planet. It is also the brightest star, sometimes even when cloudy, hence it being noticed. The moon is at least close to normal. It is hard to tell as we do not really have a view of the horizon.
45.5C is only 113F. What a bunch of pussies.
~Phoenix
Wait - the street really *is* melting? I thought I was having an acid flashback. In that case, we'll just rename the street Salvador Dali Boulevard and turn an infrastructure problem into a tourist attraction.
Damn, that mail order MBA was *totally* worth the 29.99
The 2003 European heat wave was the hottest summer on record in Europe since at least 1540. France was hit especially hard. The heat wave led to health crises in several countries and combined with drought to create a crop shortfall in parts of Southern Europe. death toll estimates ranged from 35,000 to 70,000. (PubMed or CampbellS.pdf). The hottest temp on record was 117.
Maybe they could bath in the gange... like they always do...
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-neti...
21st century economics:
man uses a rickshaw to transport ice from an ice factory!!!
i shouldn't be surprised that this is a story given the state of affairs around here lately.
This is nothing if tomorrow there is going to be a Pole Shift !
hot in India in summer: a news headline? water is wet will be next.
british india,old joke told by natives goes something like this :" only mad dogs and british are out at high noon."
Tyler. If this was true Phoenix would be nothing but a molten puddle in Summer. It isn't. Stop sensationalizing.