“The heat is unbearable”: Weather warnings increase as West Bengal grapples with extreme heatwave

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  • čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
  • An extreme heatwave hit West Bengal on Saturday, with the threat of a higher amount forecasted to hit the Indian state this summer.
    With temperatures surpassing 44 degrees Celsius in some areas, residents in the state capital, Kolkata, stayed in their homes or shelters to keep cool. Others, however, have nowhere to go and are forced to stay outside, especially as they rely on their clientele to keep their businesses afloat and earn an income.
    “What can the poor do? We have to do this to feed ourselves. The heat is unbearable,” said rickshaw driver Ram Ji Paswan.
    “I have not seen this much heat here. We are facing a lot of trouble. Customers are not coming,” said local costume jewelry store owner Osim Saha.
    A vegetable stall owner said she was forced to put wet fabric on her produce to prevent it from rotting in the heat.
    In 2022, 90 citizens were killed as a result of a heatwave. The following year, India was hit by repeated heatwaves which resulted in the death of dozens, a mass of damaged crops and a strain on energy resources as temperatures went as high as 47 degrees Celsius.
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Komentáře • 51

  • @yuhuuDman
    @yuhuuDman Před 18 dny +23

    It’s India not Canada 😂

  • @NoGattsuNoGlory
    @NoGattsuNoGlory Před 18 dny +18

    I guess the heat is so bad that I'm not getting those scam calls/ text from their phone centers now... I'm sad that I'm not getting any additional attention

  • @HaloFlemz86
    @HaloFlemz86 Před 18 dny +5

    This happened last year too, time to prepare for every year???

  • @linlena901
    @linlena901 Před 18 dny +12

    It is still cold in Canada.

  • @rickvervoort9536
    @rickvervoort9536 Před 18 dny +3

    In Bengal, summers can be extremely hot and have high humidity. The plains of South Bengal have a daily maximum temperature around 35-38 °C. It can also exceed 40 °C. The western highlands experience a dry summer like northern India. During the day, the temperature ranges from 38 to 42 °C, though it can reach or exceed 45 °C.

  • @user-eo1vz9lt8g
    @user-eo1vz9lt8g Před 18 dny +4

    Justin Trudeau did this, will the man stop at nothing? Why won't he learn to be nice? What have these people done to deserve this Trudeau??????? Shame on you........

    • @FreedaPeeple-in2mn
      @FreedaPeeple-in2mn Před 18 dny

      LOL Yes. Everything evil is Jussie's fault. He is the Dr. Moriarty of our time!

    • @BonezBeanz
      @BonezBeanz Před 18 dny +1

      He would rather help build roads for them instead of in Canada.

  • @cb613
    @cb613 Před 18 dny +9

    Looked like Toronto, had me fooled.

  • @TheBloodshower
    @TheBloodshower Před 16 dny +1

    0:35 "You're hot? Here, have some food poisoning"

  • @canadaclub8920
    @canadaclub8920 Před 18 dny +2

    the wet bulb temperatures' are what's really deadly over there

  • @suvamdutta438
    @suvamdutta438 Před 17 dny +1

    Bengals summer it's just like Russian winter so harsh and deadly

  • @Picklemedia
    @Picklemedia Před 18 dny +1

    10× more people are affected negatively by cold weather.

  • @bobwoods1302
    @bobwoods1302 Před 18 dny +4

    And it's only April😮

  • @rickvervoort9536
    @rickvervoort9536 Před 18 dny +8

    A carbon tax would go along way to helping with your weather, as well as an added bonus of getting back more than you put in. God bless.

  • @edharris4202
    @edharris4202 Před 18 dny +1

    That is glow bull boiling. That fact that it is hot is clear evidence that they are not paying enough carbon tax.

  • @davidchau4861
    @davidchau4861 Před 18 dny +3

    was that brampton?

    • @balajib1406
      @balajib1406 Před 17 dny +1

      No , Zurich, 😅😅 change your Glasses 😅

  • @PremdasDutta-iw7nw
    @PremdasDutta-iw7nw Před 13 dny

    Beat the heat.

  • @lastChang
    @lastChang Před 18 dny +10

    Thanks China 🇨🇳 for
    - building more and more *coal-fired power plants,* and
    - burning more and more *fossil fuel.*

    • @mstar7520
      @mstar7520 Před 18 dny

      thanks to EVERYONE who burns fossil fuels!

    • @adampgrm
      @adampgrm Před 18 dny

      China's coal-fired power plants are on standby for sudden outages. They mostly use Nuclear now for day to day.

  • @shaiktausif9991
    @shaiktausif9991 Před 13 dny

    Im watching from canada

  • @perfectionnotallowed6093
    @perfectionnotallowed6093 Před 18 dny +2

    Sounds just like Texas to me. It gets hotter than that here. 🤷🏽‍♀️

    • @CW-rx2js
      @CW-rx2js Před 18 dny +4

      West Bengal isn't one of the hot places in India...in some places it goes to 50C actual temp. Feels like would be higher

  • @cavink5342
    @cavink5342 Před 18 dny +1

    Don't come to Canada

  • @1ABNDT
    @1ABNDT Před 18 dny +3

    Then stop polluting the Air.

  • @2.3_44XD--
    @2.3_44XD-- Před 18 dny +4

    This brown sweaty people are used to this weather

  • @marekrudny9086
    @marekrudny9086 Před 16 dny

    Do they have a carbon tax in West Bengal?

  • @tanechkaamericanochka4839

    Government should do something for poor.

  • @Hooman-fd2jp
    @Hooman-fd2jp Před 16 dny

    global news obsessed with India

  • @brendadias7285
    @brendadias7285 Před 16 dny

    Just drink hot water you want feel thirsty .when u drink ice cold you will more heat the villi inside are put to sleep due to cold drinks

  • @Mast3r_ya
    @Mast3r_ya Před 18 dny

    Its not new here. Stop making big news from it 😂

  • @jimbojones101
    @jimbojones101 Před 18 dny

    Geoengineered weather warfare from cloud seeding and microwave technologies . . We're not all sheep out here Goebel's Snooze.

  • @fredstone5872
    @fredstone5872 Před 18 dny

    Blah, blah……….blah!

  • @piku5637
    @piku5637 Před 18 dny +2

    Animal agriculture and capitalism have gotta go.

  • @shoobydoobiemauiwowee
    @shoobydoobiemauiwowee Před 18 dny

    We're like sitting ducks in a cosmic shooting gallery. To leverage the collective intelligence of humanity to solve these problems sooner we could create a human-made mycorrhizal network to ensure safe housing, clean water, healthy food, quality education, and full health care for everyone, while planning future development to be in harmony with the Earth and with each other. A part of that system will be a video game/simulator for kids and adults to plan communities to have more comfortable temperatures. With this foundation humanity could develop more life saving technologies sooner and we could take a short cut up the Kardashev Scale.