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[STORMREPORTS] Heat Wave in India Kills >600

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 15:46:51 EDT


http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/17/india.heatwave.update.ap/index.html

Temperatures that had soared to 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit)
along the Bay of Bengal have fallen in the last few days in most of Andhra
Pradesh state, but officials are still counting deaths among the elderly,
ill and laborers who work outside.
On Thursday afternoon, the death toll stood at 450. By late Thursday, it
had risen to 622, said D.C. Roshaiah, the state relief commissioner.
It has been an abnormally hot May in southern India, with dry winds blowing
from the northwestern deserts much earlier than usual. Temperatures have
been 7 per cent higher than normal for the month.

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