Why is India so hot? Is India in the tropics?

India is located between latitude 10 and latitude 30, and most of its territory is in the tropical monsoon climate zone, while the Tahsi desert in western India belongs to the tropical desert climate zone. There are obvious cool season, summer and rainy season in a year. India is very hot in summer, the highest temperature can reach more than 40 degrees Celsius, and there is even a record of 50.8 degrees Celsius. It is the hottest time in India from the end of April to the beginning of June every year. In India, which suffers from high temperature and extreme weather, Indians often die of high temperature in summer, so why is India so hot?

First of all, from the topographical point of view, there are Himalayas and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in northern India, which is known as the roof of the world. They block most of the cold air going south from the Mid-Autumn Festival to the following spring, which will stay on the Himalayas and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so the annual temperature in India will not be lower than 10 degrees Celsius.

Secondly, from the latitude point of view, India can also be called a tropical country, because most of its territory is in the tropics. India is closer to the equator, in the direct sunlight area, with abundant water and heat.

Before the summer in India, the Asia-Europe high-pressure air mass weakened, and the southwest monsoon in the Indian Ocean has not yet been formally formed. At this time, the weather in India is sunny and the rain is scarce. This directly led to many days of exposure, and the temperature in India rose rapidly. Indian news often reports that roads are sunburned by high temperature.

In addition to geographical factors, urban development in India has also brought new climate problems, that is, the heat island effect brought by urbanization. During the day, due to the influence of specific heat capacity, oil cypress pavements and buildings in urban areas store a lot of heat, but at night, cities will emit more heat, resulting in the phenomenon that cities are hotter than rural areas and suburbs at night. Many Indians say that with the development of urbanization, the temperature in cities is getting higher every year.

In India, a tropical country, although people have a high heat tolerance because of living in this hot country for a long time, they are prone to heatstroke and even dehydration under high temperature and extreme weather if they do not pay attention to prevention.