What happens to our body when temperature rises above 50C?
A severe heatwave is scorching northern India and Pakistan, raising temperatures above an unprecedented 50C and leaving hundreds of people dead.
India’s weather department is investigating a reading of 52.9C recorded in the outskirts of Delhi on Thursday. If confirmed, it will be the hottest temperature ever recorded in the country.
M Mohapatra, the weather department’s director, said average temperature in the capital was in the 45-50C range, several notches above normal for this time of the year. It was the same story in much of northern India.
Such extreme heat could be fatal. Indeed, from and related illnesses on Thursday alone. They included a 40-year-old man in Delhi who was staying in a room without a cooler or
