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Pakistan's Nawabshah city breaks world record for hottest day in April

May 04, 2018 16:46·
Nawabshah May Become The Hottest City On Earth

Nawabshah May Become The Hottest City On Earth

Kapikian's tweet said that it was the warmest April temperature ever recorded in Pakistan and for the entire Asian continent, Washington Post reported.

It's happened again. After setting a national record for the hottest temperature during the month of March, the temperature in Nawabshah, in the Sindh Province of Pakistan, hit 50.2 degrees Celsius, or 122.4 degrees Fahrenheit, on April 30.

Records extend back as far as the 1930s.

The temperature was observed in the city which has a population of 1.1 million and is about 120 miles from the Indian Ocean. But experts on extreme temperatures say it probably is. Highs of 53C are sometimes recorded during May, ahead of the summer monsoon. Etienne Kapikian, a meteorologist at Meteo France, posted the observation on Twitter.

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Christopher C. Burt, the author of "Extreme Weather: A Guide and Record Book" and a contributor to Weather Underground, said that 122.4 degrees, or 50.2 degrees Celsius, appeared to be the hottest reliably measured April temperature "in modern records for any location on Earth". Increasing temperatures in April may force local inhabitants to vacate for cooler places to escape the heat.

It was reported that the heat was "unbearable" and dozens of people collapsed with heatstroke.

A temperature of 51.0C (123.8F) was reported in Santa Rosa, Mexico in 2001, but doubt has been cast on the reliability of this reading. North of Nawabshah, the city of Larkana recorded a 122-degree reading last April, which officially became the new record a year ago, Earther also said. While Pakistan is getting the worst of it, a huge portion of the planet, from South Asia to Europe and parts of the USA, is being hit by a heat wave that threatens to become the new normal. Records were set here, too. More records are likely to be broken across India and Pakistan during May, although another world record remains a low probability. A study completed last year showed that temperatures in India had risen 0.5 C over the past 50 years, with no change in sight.

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