Authorities cut short school term as weather bureau warns of ‘severe heatwave conditions’ this week
Photograph: Channi Anand/APPhotograph: Channi Anand/APIndian authorities in the capital, Delhi, have ordered schools to shut early for the summer holiday, after temperatures hit 47.4C .
India’s weather bureau has warned of “severe heatwave conditions” this week, reaching a peak of 47.4C in Delhi’s Najafgarh suburb on Monday – the hottest temperature countrywide. India is used to searing summer temperatures, but years of scientific research have found climate change is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.
India’s election commission has formed a taskforce to review the impact of heatwaves and humidity before each round of voting.
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