{"id":3229,"date":"2015-05-27T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2015-05-27T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T15:34:30","slug":"deadly-heat-wave-in-india-may-be-linked-to-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/05\/deadly-heat-wave-in-india-may-be-linked-to-el-nino\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly heat wave in India may be linked to El Nino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heat wave in southeast India has caused the deaths of over 1,100 people over the last week. \u00a0India recorded its highest maximum temperature of 47 degrees Celsius &#8212; 117 degrees Fahrenheit &#8212; at Angul in the state of Odisha on Monday, according to B.P. Yadav, director of the India Meteorological Department. \u00a0The extreme high temperatures coupled with high humidity and limited access to power and cooling by a substantial part of the population contributed to the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths may be linked to the presence of the growing El Nino, since many El Ninos are related to the late onset of the Indian monsoon rains and clouds. \u00a0Here is one story on the extreme event from CNN:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/25\/asia\/india-heatwave-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/25\/asia\/india-heatwave-deaths\/<\/a>\u00a0and a second related <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/heat-wave-kills-1100-in-india?utm_content=buffer9575c&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> from EarthSky. \u00a0Since agriculture in India depends on the monsoon rainfall, this indicates that India may have problems with agriculture this year if the monsoons are weak or fail to come. \u00a0The graph below related summer rainfall in India to the ENSO phase. \u00a0Bloomberg also produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-05-26\/el-nino-seen-strengthening-as-pacific-ocean-s-heat-mimics-1997?cmpid=yhoo\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> on how the El Nino may increase food prices in the Philippines due to drought.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3233\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/india-rainfall-monsoon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3233\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/india-rainfall-monsoon-300x212.png\" alt=\"Source: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology\" width=\"440\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/india-rainfall-monsoon-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/india-rainfall-monsoon-195x138.png 195w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/india-rainfall-monsoon.png 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How does the heat affect humans? \u00a0EarthGauge has a brief story which describes some of the impacts of heat on human health in the United States at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthgauge.net\/2015\/climate-fact-hot-days-heat-waves-and-health\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.earthgauge.net\/2015\/climate-fact-hot-days-heat-waves-and-health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heat wave in southeast India has caused the deaths of over 1,100 people over the last week. \u00a0India recorded its highest maximum temperature of 47 degrees Celsius &#8212; 117 degrees Fahrenheit &#8212; at Angul in the state of Odisha on Monday, according to B.P. Yadav, director of the India Meteorological Department. \u00a0The extreme high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}