The weather in India today

India suffered a super heat wave, reaching 50 degrees Celsius in some areas.

India suffered a super heat wave, reaching 50 degrees Celsius in some areas. The World Meteorological Organization issued a high temperature warning to India and Pakistan in April. The organization said that the high temperature area will cover densely populated areas in both countries and hundreds of millions of people will be affected. India suffered a super heat wave, reaching 50 degrees Celsius in some areas.

India suffered a super heat wave, reaching 50 degrees Celsius 1 in some areas. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Indian Meteorological Department continue to issue high-temperature warnings that India will face in May.

On the 30th local time, the Indian Meteorological Bureau predicted that the temperature in northern and western India may reach 50 degrees Celsius in May, which will adversely affect crops and industrial activities. This reading is close to the highest level in India since 122.

Due to the increase in electricity consumption, the above-mentioned areas in India have recently suffered from power crisis due to lack of coal. The latest news shows that Indian Railways has cancelled 753 passenger train services to make room for coal transportation during the power crisis.

WMO said it was too early to blame the extreme high temperatures in India and Pakistan only on climate change. However, this is consistent with WMO's expectation of climate change-heat waves are more frequent, stronger and start earlier than in the past.

The hottest March to April on record.

Moha Mohapatra, head of the Indian Meteorological Bureau, said, "The average maximum temperature in northwest and central India in April is the highest in the past 122 years".

According to the Indian Meteorological Bureau, the highest temperature in most parts of India reached 43-46 degrees Celsius on April 28th.

Similar temperatures have occurred in Pakistan. According to the meteorological department of Pakistan, in most parts of the country, the daytime temperature may be 5 degrees Celsius to 8 degrees Celsius higher than the normal temperature. The department warned that in some mountainous areas, unusually high temperature will accelerate the melting of ice and snow, and may trigger floods or flash floods caused by the bursting of ice lakes in fragile areas.

However, Mohapatra also said that in May, rainfall in most parts of India may be normal or higher than normal.

According to the Indian Meteorological Bureau, India witnessed the hottest March and April on record this year. Thermometers in central and northern India have reached 46 degrees Celsius, two months before the monsoon season, which will bring cool rainfall.

The sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that the heat wave and humid heat pressure in South Asia will be more intense and frequent in this century.

The Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences recently released a report on climate change in India, and devoted a whole chapter to discussing temperature change. The report shows that the frequency of extreme warm weather in India has increased from 195 1 to 20 15, and the warming trend has accelerated in the past 30 years from 1986 to 20 15. Since 1986, the hottest day, the hottest night and the coldest night have experienced significant warming.

This year, India experienced the hottest March in history, with an average maximum temperature of 33. 1 degree Celsius, which is 1.86 degree Celsius higher than the long-term average temperature. Pakistan also recorded the hottest March in at least 60 years, and many weather stations broke the record. For example, on May 28th, 20 17, the city of Tulbat, south of Bakis, recorded the fourth highest temperature in the world-53.7 degrees Celsius.

WMO said that it is expected that the frequency, duration, intensity and coverage of the heat wave before the Indian monsoon season in 2 1 century will greatly increase, and the heat wave is triggered by a high-pressure system.

WMO also explained that high temperatures often occur in India and Pakistan before the monsoon season, especially in May. However, heat waves in April are not common.

Coal stopped the passenger train in an emergency.

Take April 28th, when the temperature reached 43-46 degrees Celsius, for example, the peak electricity consumption in India reached a record 204.6 GW that day. About 75% of electricity in India comes from coal. A large amount of electricity consumption has led to a sharp decline in India's coal stocks, and the Indian government has to announce the cancellation of 753 passenger train services to transfer capacity.

According to Indian media reports, at least 108 of India's 173 coal-fired power plants are short of coal. In the case of power shortage, in Rajasthan, northwest India, for example, its factories and rural areas are blacked out for four hours every day to alleviate the pressure of electricity consumption.

Industrial blackouts and widespread blackouts are not good news for Indian companies: India's economic activity has only recently begun to pick up.

India's Ministry of Electricity said that after the peak of India's electricity demand soared to a record high on April 28, it is expected to increase by 8% in May, and the Indian Meteorological Bureau warned that the weather will be even hotter in the next few days.

India suffered a super heat wave, reaching 50 degrees Celsius in some areas. According to the forecast of the Indian Meteorological Bureau, the temperature in northern and western India may further climb to 50 degrees Celsius in May. In April, the average maximum temperature in some parts of India reached the highest value since 122 years.

In fact, it is not news that India experienced high temperature in May before the arrival of the summer monsoon, but it is very abnormal that such an extreme heat wave began in April. However, it never rains alone. At this juncture, India's coal stocks are in a hurry. 70% of India's electricity comes from coal, and the lack of coal almost means power failure.

The World Meteorological Organization issued a high temperature warning to India and Pakistan in April. The organization said that the high temperature area will cover densely populated areas in both countries and hundreds of millions of people will be affected.

The Indian Meteorological Bureau reported that in April, the average maximum temperatures in northwest and central India were 35.9 and 37.78 degrees Celsius, respectively, the highest since records began in the past 122 years. In April, the capital New Delhi also had a record of exceeding 40 degrees Celsius for seven consecutive days. Some Indian media said that "the capital New Delhi seems to be on fire"!

High temperature has the most direct impact on agricultural production, especially on wheat, because the main wheat producing areas in India are concentrated in the central and northwest regions where high temperature continues, and are in the critical filling period. Local experts predict that Indian wheat will face an average yield reduction of 15% ~ 25% this year.

Pakistan has also been hit by the heat wave. On April 29th, the daily maximum temperature in Sindh province in the southeast climbed to 47 degrees Celsius. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Bureau, this was the highest temperature recorded in all cities in the northern hemisphere that day.

Due to the extreme high temperature, India's power demand hit a record high in April this year, which triggered the worst power crisis in many years. The government was forced to cut off power, which led to a large-scale power outage in India.

In fact, people have long been used to intermittent power outages. Power shortage in India has long been criticized by Indian society, mainly due to insufficient investment in infrastructure. In June 5438+10 last year, due to economic recovery and coal shortage, the first round of power crisis occurred in India after the outbreak of the epidemic; Now only half a year has passed, and India has once again fallen into a more severe power supply crisis.

Coal-fired power generation accounts for more than 0.70% of India's power generation, and behind the current power shortage is coal shortage. India's Ministry of Coal said that "there is a great pressure on domestic coal supply", and India's coal mining and transportation infrastructure can't keep up with the growing demand.

In order to alleviate the power crisis, India relaxed the environmental protection approval for coal mine expansion to increase coal production. According to a report by the Indian government, existing coal mines can increase the output of 10% without affecting the environmental assessment; At the same time, the regulations on consulting local residents have also been relaxed.

Faced with the crisis, India had to make some concessions on environmental protection. Liu told the first financial reporter that coal-fired power is a cheap and stable energy source for India, but in recent years, India has vigorously developed green energy and no longer paid attention to increasing coal production, which has been ignored.

In addition, the Indian government does everything possible to tap potential production capacity. On May 6, India launched an emergency bill to restart some coal-based power plants, which have been idle due to financial problems or high international coal prices.

India imports about 300 million to 400 million tons of coal every year, mainly from Indonesia, Australia and South Africa. Although India is rich in coal reserves, it is short of power coal for power generation, with high ash content and low calorific value, which belongs to inferior varieties. Among them, the output of coal with calorific value less than 4800 calories accounts for more than 70%, which needs to be supplemented by imports.

India is experiencing a super heat wave, with some areas as high as 50 degrees Celsius. India is experiencing the hottest months before summer in recent years. At present, the continuous heat wave has dried up the water source in Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat, India. Local animal rescuers can collect dozens of birds falling from the sky because of dehydration every day.

The number of birds in need of rescue increased by 10%

According to Reuters's May 1 1 report, the non-profit organization Jivdaya Charity Trust runs an animal hospital in Ahmedabad. Doctors at the hospital said that rescuers bring dozens of birds such as pigeons or kites every day, and the hospital has treated thousands of birds in the past few weeks.

"This year is one of the worst years in recent years." According to Manoj Bhavsar, who has been engaged in bird rescue for more than ten years, the number of birds needing rescue has increased by 10% this year.

On May 1 1, the doctors in this animal hospital fed the birds with multivitamin tablets and injected water into their mouths with syringes.

According to the Press Trust of India, some similar birds have been found in Delhi, the capital of India. The Indian Wildlife SOS said that its members rescued 20 black kites in the national capital Delhi in April, and nearly 120 birds including 30 kites and more than 70 pigeons in March, and provided them with "necessary medical assistance".

In addition, health officials in Gujarat issued an early warning to general hospitals, asking them to set up special wards for heatstroke and other heat-related diseases.

Relax environmental protection regulations to increase coal production

The heat wave and economic recovery in the post-epidemic era also triggered the worst power crisis in India in more than six years. According to Agence France-Presse reported in May 1 1, a government letter showed that in order to increase production, India relaxed the environmental protection regulations for coal mines due to the intensification of power outages in hot weather.

In a letter seen by AFP reporters on May 7, India's Ministry of Environment said that the Ministry of Coal has been granted a "special exemption" to enable coal mines to operate with greater capacity. According to Reuters, this special exemption is valid for six months.

Indian officials said that after obtaining special exemption, coal mines can increase the number of projects previously operating at 40% capacity to 50% without new environmental impact assessment and public consultation.

Earlier, the Ministry of Coal issued a request to the Ministry of Environment, saying that "India's coal supply is under great pressure and is making every effort to meet the coal demand of all industries".

The letter comes as the Indian government launched a new plan last week to lease abandoned state-owned coal mines to private mining companies and ensure that they get environmental protection approval quickly. The Indian government hopes to attract some private mining giants to use new technologies and new capital to restore more than 65,438+000 dormant coal mines that were previously considered inoperable.

Although the Indian government has promised to increase the power generation capacity of renewable energy to 175 GW by 2022, and further to 500 GW by 2030, on May 6th this year, India's coal minister Pralhad Joshi said that India's coal demand will double by 2040.

Some experts said that India's measures to speed up coal production may make Prime Minister Modi unable to fulfill his promise at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow last year, that is, to meet 50% of energy demand through renewable energy by 2030.