A team of researchers conducted a study to understand the change in spatial and temporal trends in Heatwaves<\/strong>(HW) and Severe Heat Waves<\/strong>(SHW) over the past seven decades in different meteorological subdivisions of India.<\/span><\/p>\n A Heat Wave<\/b> is a period of abnormally high temperatures, more than the normal maximum temperature, that occurs during the summer season in the North-Western parts of India.<\/span><\/p>\n Impact of Heatwaves<\/b><\/p>\n Heatwaves have emerged as a deadly health hazard, claiming thousands of lives across the globe with episodes strengthening in frequency, intensity and duration in the past half-century in India as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In such a scenario, it is extremely important to identify the <\/span>heatwave hotspots in India<\/b> to prioritize immediate policy intervention and stringent mitigation and adaptation strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n Northwestern, central and south-central India are new hotspots of intense heat waves over the past 50 years in India.<\/span><\/p>\n These regions need effective heat action plans with a focus on different vulnerabilities among the inhabitants.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Three new heatwave hotspots in India put large populations at immediate health risk<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in <\/span>PIB <\/b>on<\/span> 7th September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? A team of researchers conducted a study to understand the change in spatial and temporal trends in Heatwaves(HW) and Severe Heat Waves(SHW) over the past seven decades in different meteorological subdivisions of India. What is Heatwave? A Heat Wave is a period of abnormally high temperatures, more than the normal maximum… Continue reading Three new heatwave hotspots in India put large population at immediate health risk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[411,9616,9617,8369],"class_list":["post-132453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-disaster-management","tag-disasters","tag-heatwave-hotspots","tag-heatwaves","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704835403},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Heatwave?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Heatwave Hotspots in India<\/b><\/h5>\n