India's heatwave longest ever, worse to comeA woman with her face covered walks past air coolers kept on display outside a shop during a hot summer day amid severe heatwave in Varanasi on May 30, 2024. NEW DELHI — India's heatwave is the longest ever to hit the country, the government's top weather expert said Monday as he warned people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures. The mercury is expected to fall as the annual monsoon rains move north this month, but Mohapatra cautioned worse will follow. "We constituted an expert committee, which observed readings for the next two days and found there were problems with the sensor," Mohapatra said. "We inspect the AWS (automatic weather stations) every six months," he said.

Source: Philippine Star June 10, 2024 13:30 UTC