India records its hottest day ever as temperature hits 51C (that's 123.8F)

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Source: The Guardian

A city in northern India has shattered the national heat record, registering a searing 51C – the highest since records began – amid a nationwide heatwave.

The new record was set in Phalodi, a city in the desert state of Rajasthan, and is the equivalent of 123.8F.

It tops a previous record of 50.6C set in 1956.

“Yesterday (Thursday) was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the country ... 51C in Phalodi,” said BP Yadav, a director of India’s meteorological department, on Friday.

Temperatures in northern India regularly hit the high 40s in May and June – the hottest months of the year – but topping 50C is unusual.

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1. there's more where that came from.

[moonbabygo]

2. Holy comoly

How does one survive 124 degrees. I can't handle 90 degrees F

With that said I wish the North East would warm up a bit. Then I can complain about the heat

[JCMach1]

3. It is regularly this hot (at least in the sun) in Dubai in Summer... plus you get high humidity as

well...

Horrible, horrible heat...

You SIP air when it gets this hot.

[Scientific]

4. And Republicans elect to remain staunchly stupid about reality

And determined to do their best to take us and our children down with them as they foolishly ignore the hard truth. Their self-applied term for themselves ("conservative&quot is such utter bullshit. They are radically ignorant.