Horrific Heat Wave tightens grip over India
Pastor Dale Morgan
Horrific Heat Wave tightens grip over India*
NEW DELHI, April 27 (AFP) Apr 27, 2007
A horrific heat wave in northern India tightened its grip Friday,
prompting some schools to shut early to prevent sunstroke attacks,
officials said.
Temperatures in the capital New Delhi rose to 40.9 degrees Celsius (106
Fahrenheit) on Friday, the weather office said in a bulletin.
In Sriganganagar in the desert state of Rajasthan the mercury touched
43.9 degrees Celsius for the first time this summer, making it the
hottest region in northern India.
So far three people have died in the heat spell that settled over most
of northern India mid-April.
Kanpur city in northern Uttar Pradesh state ordered schools to shut
early as a protection from the blazing sun, officials said, as the New
Delhi municipal department issued guidelines for preventing sunstroke.
A number of towns in the sizzling state of Haryana took similar
precautions, reports said, with meteorologists predicting that the
mercury could rise rapidly in the coming days.
Prolonged power cuts compounded the misery in the capital city of 15
million people, officials said.