The heatwave conditions persisting in Delhi have been severe, and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has indicated that the hot weather is likely to prevail till the end of this week. A mild decrease in temperature should be noticed starting Friday, and there might be some light rain with thunderstorm activity that will help to refresh the situation. The IMD has already declared an orange alert on Thursday and suggested that the residents and authorities take the necessary preparatory actions.
In the capital, the highest temperature on Wednesday registered a slight drop from 43.8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday to 43.3 degrees Celsius. But the humidity levels were high and made the conditions much unbearable. Some areas of the city recorded a heatwave on the third day in a row. The Heat Index, or real-feel temperature, in Delhi reached an incredible 50.8 o C by mid-afternoon. This parameter, which considers both temperature and humidity to give an indication of how warm it really is on the skin, continued to increase to 51.9 °C at 5:30 pm when the relative humidity increased to 39 per cent.
The main index of heat stress, the wet bulb temperature, registered 28.8 °C at 2.30 pm and subsequently rose to 29.6 °C in the evening. As a frame of reference, a wet bulb temperature over 32 °C makes the human body considerably unable to self-cool, and 35 °C is regarded as the highest limit of survivability.
On Thursday morning, the minimum temperature was 30.7 °C, which was approximately three degrees higher than the seasonal average, and it was higher than the one recorded on Wednesday, which was 27.2 °C. This was an extremely hot week with the highest temperatures recorded of 43.4 on Monday and 43.8 on Tuesday. May, on the contrary, had some weather relief with 184.6 mm of rainfall, the highest rainfall ever recorded in the month since 1901 and not even a single day of heatwave.
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