Delhi’s weather continues to be a topic of concern as the city recorded a minimum temperature of 30.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday, as per the India Meteorological Department.
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With the mercury soaring to unprecedented levels in Delhi, the scorching heat has taken a deadly toll as a 40-year-old man hailing from Bihar’s Darbhanga succumbed to heat stroke at Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital on Wednesday. The victim, employed at a factory specializing in pipeline fittings, was rushed to the hospital by his roommate and fellow workers an hour past midnight on Monday. “He was living in a room with no cooler or fan and developed a very high fever,” a doctor attending to him said according to the Indian Express. “His body temperature shot up above 107 degrees Fahrenheit.”
Doctors at the unit said the patients they attended to were “classic cases of heat stroke”. There are two types of heatstroke, a doctor explained: “Exertional heat is generally because of physical overexertion in hot, humid conditions and can develop within few hours”. Classic heatstroke cases occur “due to age or underlying health conditions”.
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Delhi weather update
Delhi’s weather continues to be a topic of concern as the city recorded a minimum temperature of 30.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday, as per the India Meteorological Department. The forecast includes expectations of light rain and a dust storm later in the day. The Safdarjung observatory, Delhi’s primary weather station, marked a scorching maximum temperature of 46.8 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, the highest in nearly eight decades.
This temperature was only marginally lower than the record of 46.7 degrees Celsius set back on June 17, 1945. Today, the weather department anticipates a partly cloudy sky with heatwave conditions prevailing.
There is also a possibility of a dust storm or thunderstorm along with very light rain accompanied by gusty winds.
