General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPakistan hit 122.3F this week and that's a scary record for April
Maybe we will all just fry so we don't have to worry about nursing homes.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/4/1761996/-Pakistan-hit-122-3-F-this-week-and-that-s-a-scary-record-for-April
Pakistan hit 122.3°F this week and that's a scary record for April
Walter Einenkel
Daily Kos Staff
Friday May 04, 2018 · 11:46 AM EDT
According to the New York Times, temperature highs in Nawabshah, Pakistan, have not dropped below 113°F all week. The rest of Pakistan and India have also seen triple digit numbers as they have been experiencing what is being politely called a heat wave.
According to Al Jazeera, the city of Nawabshah reached a temperature of 122.3° F on Monday, making this is a global record for the month of April. Yay?
Records extend back as far as the 1930s. (The previous Pakistan April record of 50.0C (122F) was set only the previous year.)
Nawabshah, with a population of 1.1 million, lies in Sindh province, around 180km to the northeast of Karachi.
To put this into perspective, in recorded history, very few days have been hotter.
Elections matter.
Paka
(2,760 posts)...it was 125 degrees Fahrenheit (52 degrees Celsius) the day I left. Hottest temperatures recorded there in a decade.
Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)unimaginable. I'm uncomfortable at 78F
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)in June. Tucson has hit 110+ and Phoenix and Yuma even more so. It's pretty common here in June. Then the monsoons start in late June, early July and you want to escape the humidity. The monsoon storms are quite entertaining though. That is when cabin fever in July, Aug and Sept happens.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)If there is a power outage and no air-conditioning, how many people would not make it thru one of those heat waves?
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)That's normal in these parts. They have cooling stations for power outages but knock wood, we've never had one of those in the past 5 yrs in my neighborhood. It would be miserable.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)peggysue2
(10,811 posts)also having another heat wave.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/05/07/another-extreme-heat-wave-strikes-the-north-pole/?utm_term=.fe17c2d6e3a0
Mother Earth is in trouble. And thus, so are we.
As a side note, my oldest son will be on an Arctic exploration in mid-August. It'll be interesting to see what he reports when he comes back. Although I confess, the whole trip (a two-man operation) makes me nervous as hell.