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Delhi orders schools to close early for holidays as temperatures hit 47.4C
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City officials told schools to shut with “immediate effect” due to the blistering heat, according to a government order quoted by the Hindustan Times on Tuesday, cutting the term by a few days.
India’s weather bureau has warned of “severe heatwave conditions” this week, reaching a peak of 47.4C in Delhi’s Najafgarh suburb on Monday – the hottest temperature countrywide.
Authorities in other states – including Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan – have also ordered schools to close, India Today reported.
India is used to searing summer temperatures, but years of scientific research have found the climate crisis is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.
Turnout has dipped, with analysts suggesting the hotter-than-average weather is a factor – as well as the widespread expectation that the prime minister, Narendra Modi, will easily win a third term.
Severe storms hit other parts of the country last week, including the financial capital, Mumbai, where strong winds flattened a billboard that killed 16 people and left dozens more trapped.
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