According to researchers, it is really rare for heat waves to arrive so early and spread almost throughout the country.
Heatwaves are common in India during the summer, but this year they arrived in parts of the country as early as spring.
They started as early as March, with an average monthly temperature of 122 years.
Heat waves are occurring almost everywhere in India and threaten the health of over a billion people.
Temperatures of 40 to 50 degrees have been measured across India.
– It is really rare that almost all of India suffers from a heat wave, he said Arpita Mondal From the Indian Institute of Technology to the news agency Reuters.
Prime minister Narendra Modi warned the Indian state leadership of the increased risk of fire.
– The number of fires has increased in recent days. They have been reported in the jungle and in important buildings such as hospitals, he said.
Researcher at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Roxy Mathew Kollin according to the current heat wave is due to several reasons, but the background is affected by global warming.
“That’s the main reason why there are more heat waves now,” he says in an interview with the BBC.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has repeatedly warned that India will suffer particularly severely if the global average temperature rises by 1.5 degrees.
When the temperature in Calcutta rose to 44 degrees in 2015, it claimed thousands of lives.
In addition, farmers have warned that heat waves will destroy grain crops.