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

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  • Опубліковано 26 кві 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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КОМЕНТАРІ • 51

  • @yuhuuDman
    @yuhuuDman 18 днів тому +23

    It’s India not Canada 😂

  • @NoGattsuNoGlory
    @NoGattsuNoGlory 18 днів тому +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 18 днів тому +5

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

  • @linlena901
    @linlena901 18 днів тому +12

    It is still cold in Canada.

  • @rickvervoort9536
    @rickvervoort9536 18 днів тому +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 18 днів тому +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 18 днів тому

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

    • @BonezBeanz
      @BonezBeanz 18 днів тому +1

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

  • @cb613
    @cb613 18 днів тому +9

    Looked like Toronto, had me fooled.

  • @TheBloodshower
    @TheBloodshower 15 днів тому +1

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

  • @canadaclub8920
    @canadaclub8920 17 днів тому +2

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

  • @suvamdutta438
    @suvamdutta438 16 днів тому +1

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

  • @Picklemedia
    @Picklemedia 17 днів тому +1

    10× more people are affected negatively by cold weather.

  • @bobwoods1302
    @bobwoods1302 18 днів тому +4

    And it's only April😮

  • @rickvervoort9536
    @rickvervoort9536 18 днів тому +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 18 днів тому +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 18 днів тому +3

    was that brampton?

    • @balajib1406
      @balajib1406 17 днів тому +1

      No , Zurich, 😅😅 change your Glasses 😅

  • @PremdasDutta-iw7nw
    @PremdasDutta-iw7nw 12 днів тому

    Beat the heat.

  • @lastChang
    @lastChang 18 днів тому +10

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

    • @mstar7520
      @mstar7520 18 днів тому

      thanks to EVERYONE who burns fossil fuels!

    • @adampgrm
      @adampgrm 18 днів тому

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

  • @shaiktausif9991
    @shaiktausif9991 12 днів тому

    Im watching from canada

  • @perfectionnotallowed6093
    @perfectionnotallowed6093 18 днів тому +2

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

    • @CW-rx2js
      @CW-rx2js 17 днів тому +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 17 днів тому +1

    Don't come to Canada

  • @1ABNDT
    @1ABNDT 18 днів тому +3

    Then stop polluting the Air.

  • @2.3_44XD--
    @2.3_44XD-- 18 днів тому +4

    This brown sweaty people are used to this weather

  • @marekrudny9086
    @marekrudny9086 15 днів тому

    Do they have a carbon tax in West Bengal?

  • @tanechkaamericanochka4839
    @tanechkaamericanochka4839 18 днів тому +3

    Government should do something for poor.

  • @Hooman-fd2jp
    @Hooman-fd2jp 15 днів тому

    global news obsessed with India

  • @brendadias7285
    @brendadias7285 15 днів тому

    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 18 днів тому

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

  • @jimbojones101
    @jimbojones101 18 днів тому

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

  • @fredstone5872
    @fredstone5872 18 днів тому

    Blah, blah……….blah!

  • @piku5637
    @piku5637 18 днів тому +2

    Animal agriculture and capitalism have gotta go.

  • @shoobydoobiemauiwowee
    @shoobydoobiemauiwowee 18 днів тому

    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.