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The 50 C number was observed in a desert. Death Valley, California, also a desert, spend 5 consecutive days above 54 C in 1913, the year it set the temperature
by jessriedel 7y ago
The 50 C number was observed in a desert. Death Valley, California, also a desert, spend 5 consecutive days above 54 C in 1913, the year it set the temperature record of 56.7 C.
- gingabriska 7y agoActually it's also bad in densely populated areas where the bitumin starts melting and sticks to your car tyres and shoes. I traveled there.
- 21717117 7y agoFor the Americans, bitumin is aka asphalt.
- arnaudsm 7y ago"The thermometer hit 50.6 degrees [...] in the Rajasthan desert city of Churu." Churu has 120k inhabitants, you can call that a population center.
- jessriedel 7y agoThanks, you're right. Edited.
- ramraj07 7y agoJust as a note, you can put a pin in Any random location in India and it'll be 80% a village or town with a good amount of people living. A train ride through the nation in any non-national park route would show that you very rarelt see a stretch of land go more than a few miles without a couple houses.
- captn3m0 7y ago120k people is definitely not 80% of the map.
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- inapis 7y agoNopes. Churu is a population center. It's a district headquarter. And population centers are not faraway from 50C at 46-47C being pretty frequent.
- selimthegrim 7y agoAgreed. Jacobabad, Nawabshah, Guddu (where my mom grew up), Kashmore are all substantial cities in Sindh not too far away where the mercury usually gets this high in summer.
- selimthegrim 7y agohttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/pre-monsoon-heat-hits-record-levels-190602135859512.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/pre-monsoon-heat-hits...
- jessriedel 7y agoYes, you're right. Edited.
- hedora 7y agoFor people that don’t know, Death Valley’s name is no exaggeration, even in modern times. Going outside there even for short periods of time is extremely dangerous for some fraction of each year. They shut the park down when this happens. A few years ago, some tourists that didn’t heed the warning ended up dead after rental van overheated. I don’t see how the populated areas already hitting comparable temperatures will be habitable at all in ten years.
- leereeves 7y ago> I don’t see how the populated areas already hitting comparable temperatures will be habitable at all in ten years. Phoenix, AZ, where nearly 5 million people live, hit 50C in 1990 and has come close many times.
- myself248 7y agohttp://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/ http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun... ^ This absolutely riveted me. It's a long read, but mindblowing for someone who's accustomed to a much more hospitable place.
- marktangotango 7y agoI was at NTC (south of Death Valley in the Mohave) one summer when the temp was 125-130F for a week. We were in the box the entire time. We used ice filled camel backs, sucking water all day (and rarely urinating) First sgt would bring out pallets of bagged ice that would be half melted by the time they got to us. As a side note; 125 feels cool after spending all day in, and then climbing out if a M1A1! Really odd thing was shivering at night when the temp dropped to 85-90. And urinating all day when it was only 100, but you were still drinking like it was 130.
- sizzle 7y agoThis is an incredible story. Do they regularly operate out there in these extreme conditions? How did you keep your electrolytes balanced drinking all that water?
- z3phyr 7y agoNew Delhi, the capital, recorded 47 C. Its a population center is it not?