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Heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather |
Southern India
May 2002-In the state of Andhra Pradesh temperatures rose to 120°F (48.9°C), resulting in the highest one-week death toll on record. This heat wave came in the context of a long-term warming trend in Asia in general. India, including southern India, has experienced a warming trend at a rate of 1°F (0.6°C) per century.
Reference: NCDC, 1999. Area averaged temperature time series for China, India, and the United States. National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC.
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/doe/doe.html
NCDC, 2002a. Climate-Watch, May 2002. National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC. http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/extremes/2002/may/extremes0502.html
IPCC, 2001b. Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, MacCarthy, J.J. et al., eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
