{"id":85677,"date":"2019-04-16T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T11:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2021-02-27T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T11:34:48","slug":"sunstroke-cases-on-the-rise-in-andhra-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sunstroke-cases-on-the-rise-in-andhra-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunstroke cases on the rise in Andhra Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There has been a high number of\nsunstroke\/heatstroke cases in Andhra Pradesh which is reeling under heat wave\nconditions. <\/li><li>A heat wave is a period of abnormally high\ntemperatures-more than the normal maximum temperature that occurs during the\nsummer season. Heat wave is considered if maximum temperature of a station\nreaches at least 40\u00b0C or more for Plains, 37\u00b0C or more for coastal stations and\nat least 30\u00b0C or more for Hilly regions.<\/li><li>The National Disaster Management Authority has\nhad prepared Guidelines for preparation of action plan: prevention and\nmanagement of heat-wave. These guidelines aims to facilitate different\nstakeholders in preparing a Heat Wave Management Plan. The guidelines provide\ninsight into the heat related illness and the necessary mitigative and response\nactions to be undertaken.<\/li><li>The Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management\nAuthority has been implanting a heat wave action plan to mitigate and response\nto the impact of heat waves. <\/li><li>The Andhra Pradesh government is also focussing\non Heat Index to take preventive steps and issue advisory to people. A combined\neffect of temperature and humidity is defined as the Heat Index and used as a\nmeasure of human discomfort.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a high number of sunstroke\/heatstroke cases in Andhra Pradesh which is reeling under heat wave conditions. A heat wave is a period of abnormally high temperatures-more than the normal maximum temperature that occurs during the summer season. Heat wave is considered if maximum temperature of a station reaches at least 40\u00b0C or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sunstroke-cases-on-the-rise-in-andhra-pradesh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunstroke cases on the rise in Andhra Pradesh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,4182],"tags":[3074],"class_list":["post-85677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-management","category-environment","tag-heat-wave","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700794691,"cached_date":1704639740},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85677","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}