Temperatures reached 39°C in New Delhi, India, on 2 May Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times/Shutterstock
India is reeling from a fresh heatwave that began on 7 May. It follows weeks of extreme heat throughout much of the north of the country in March and April that saw temperatures reach more than 46°C and approach 49°C in neighbouring Pakistan.
“This kind of heat is not unknown in north India during the summer before the monsoon,” says , director of the World Resources Institute’s climate programme in India. “The difference this time is that it has come earlier than…
