A small city in India’s Northwest raised to a soaring 51 degrees Celsius on Thursday afternoon by breaking all time summer records. 50.6 degree Celsius was recorded the highest in 1886.
51 degrees which is 123.8 Fahrenheit was broken in Phalodi, which is 125 miles away from the city located in India’s Pachpadra. April and May tend to be the hottest months in Northwest India, and this year has been really high.
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian at Weather Underground, posited that April’s heat wave was the most intense ever observed in South-east Asia.
The India Meteorological Department issued a “severe heat wave warning” for a huge swath of the country on Thursday, which will continue through Saturday.
