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Post-Monsoon Turning Out To Be Hotter In Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Soon after the southwest monsoon subdued over Odisha, many parts of the State recorded above normal temperature. In the last 24 hours, temperature above 35 degree Celsius was recorded at 18 places. The India Meteorological Department has mentioned that the situation will prevail for the next two to three days. Also due to high surface humidity discomfort weather is likely, especially over districts of Coastal Odisha. According to an analysis of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) based on the India Meteorological Department (IMD)’s long-term data, the June to September monsoon season has been 0.3-0.4 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-monsoon seasons in the decade from 2012 to 2022. The CSE said that the average daily maximum temperature this year for March and April in northwest India was almost 4 degrees Celsius above the normal compared to its baseline of 1981-2010. According to the IMD, average temperatures across seasons have seen a sharp upward trend in the country since 1991. The trend is in comparison to the average surface air temperature baseline recorded between 1981 and 2010. Climate experts warn that global warming has increased the frequency of extreme weather events. Some other parts of the country are also facing a similar phenomenon.

Selama Seminggu, Hampir 50 Orang Tewas Tersambar Petir di Wilayah Ini

VIVA Dunia – Ada penelitian yang menunjukkan, kenaikan suhu hanya satu derajat meningkatkan jumlah sambaran petir sebesar 12%. Polusi juga diperkirakan meningkatkan tingkat pemogokan. Saat ini, lebih banyak orang meninggal karena pemogokan daripada insiden terkait hujan seperti banjir. Dilaporkan oleh News.Sky, tujuh orang tewas tersambar petir di India utara pada Jumat, 30 Juli 2022. Sehingga total korban tewas menjadi 49 minggu ini. Semua korban tewas berada di negara bagian Uttar Pradesh, yang saat ini sedang musim hujan. Artikel ini sudah tayang di VIVA.co.id pada hari Senin, 1 Agustus 2022 - 10:41 WIB Judul Artikel : Selama Seminggu, Hampir 50 Orang Tewas Tersambar Petir di Wilayah Ini Tujuh kematian terbaru sebagian besar adalah petani desa, yang berlindung di bawah pohon saat hujan. Empat berasal dari keluarga yang sama, menurut polisi di kota terdekat Kaushambi. Artikel ini sudah tayang di VIVA.co.id pada hari Senin, 1 Agustus 2022 - 10:41 WIB Judul Artikel : Selama Seminggu, Hampir 50 Orang Tewas Tersambar Petir di Wilayah Ini Sejauh musim ini, lebih banyak orang meninggal karena sambaran petir daripada insiden terkait hujan seperti banjir. Setelah banyak kematian, pemerintah India mengeluarkan pedoman baru untuk badai. Juru bicara Shishir Singh mengatakan kepada News.Sky "Orang-orang lebih banyak meninggal karena petir daripada insiden terkait hujan, meskipun ini adalah saat ketika orang (biasanya) meninggal karena banjir atau insiden terkait hujan lainnya." Kolonel Sanjay Srivastava dari Departemen Meteorologi India mengatakan hampir 750 orang di India tewas tersambar petir sejak April. Sunita Narain, Direktur Jenderal Pusat Sains dan Lingkungan, mengatakan pemanasan global mempengaruhi jumlah sambaran petir. Artikel ini sudah tayang di VIVA.co.id pada hari Senin, 1 Agustus 2022 - 10:41 WIB Judul Artikel : Selama Seminggu, Hampir 50 Orang Tewas Tersambar Petir di Wilayah Ini

On-board Charger Market Projected to Show Strong Growth | Infineon Technologies, LG Electronics, AVID Technology

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UP mulls ranking system to push fight against black water

Lucknow: The open defecation free status for UP has come up with a responsibility — that of dealing with faecal sludge and sewage, commonly known as black water. While UP has taken steps to manage the challenge, the urban devlopment department is considering to start a unique ranking system. Indication to this effect came up here on Friday at an official programme on the status of faecal sludge and septage management (FSSM) in UP. Organised by the department of urban development, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the event saw release of a detailed report that assessed the progress and working of all the 62 FSSM projects in the state. Principal secretary, department of urban development, UP, Amrit Abhijat said: “The state government has proposed the introduction of an ‘ease of septage management’ ranking for the districts to motivate city administrations to take proactive measures on the count.” Director general CSE, Sunita Narain said: “UP has made huge investment for the cause, but it is equally important to initiate course correction measures.” She added: “Efforts made to clean our rivers will not succeed if we do not ensure affordable and effective sewage and septage management, something that the Namami Gange desires to achieve.” Citing Central Pollution Control Board data (2021), director, water and waste water programme, CSE, Depinder S Kapur said: “Sustainable and scientific management of faecal sludge and septage is a priority for UP.” Director, urban development, Neha Sharma spoke about the importance of urban local bodies in FSSM.

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Faecal sludge and sewage management: ‘Challenge in U.P. one of governance and administration’

The principal secretary, urban development said that to motivate city administrations the urban development department is planning to introduce a system of ranking of districts on the basis of ease of septage management. The director-general, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Sunita Narain, said that Uttar Pradesh has been steadily laying the foundations for faecal sludge and septage management infrastructure in cities. Large investments are being made in building treatment plants, she said. Speaking at a conference over the current state of faecal sludge and septage management system in Uttar Pradesh, Narain said that the time has come to assess the progress and initiate course-correction measures. The challenge of urban sanitation in UP as well as other states is not one of technology or infrastructure but one of governance and administration. The focus should be on streamlining operations, she said. Programme director, water and wastewater, CSE, Depinder S Kapur, said that the report released by Central Pollution Control Board in 2021 says 95% of Uttar Pradesh cities are dependent on non-sewered sanitation systems. Only 31 towns out of the 734 have partial sewerage system coverage. Together they manage to treat merely 40% of the sewage. Sustainable and scientific management of faecal sludge and septage is among the top priority of UP, he said. Principal secretary, urban development, Amrit Abhijat said that to motivate the city administration the urban development department is planning to introduce a system of ranking of districts on the basis of – ease of septage management. Director, local bodies, Neha Sharma said that urban local bodies should be made an integral part of the infrastructure development process for faecal sludge and septage management with its very inception. The urban local bodies should be involved at each step of the project, she said. A report on Septage Management for City-wide inclusive Sanitation in Uttar Pradesh was released on the occasion.

Water wisdom

The country has learnt critical water lessons through the years — now is the time to put it to practice This monsoon, when the precious rainwater goes down the drain, let us take a moment to recapitulate the knowledge of water management and what it means in a climate-risked world. There are two incontrovertible facts: one, water is a key determinant of health security and economic growth. Two, water wars are not inevitable but will happen if we do not manage our resources prudently. This requires us to get the policy and practice of water management right. The good news is water literacy has increased. Over the past decades, the country has learnt critical lessons on water management and evolved a new paradigm. Until the late 1980s, water management was largely confined to the issue of irrigation projects — building dams and canals to store and supply water over long distances. Then came the big droughts of the late 1980s. It became clear that it was not enough to plan for augmenting water supply through large projects. This was when the Centre for Science and Environment published its report, Dying Wisdom, which documented traditional technologies for rainwater harvesting in ecological diverse regions of India. The slogan was: rain is decentralised, so is the demand for water. So, capture rain when and where it falls. There was a paradigm shift in policy. During the droughts of the late 1990s, states launched massive programmes to capture rainwater by building ponds, digging tanks and setting up check-dams on streams. By the mid-2000s, these efforts coalesced into the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) — investing labour into building rural water assets. By this time, it was understood that groundwater, considered a "minor" resource, was the "major" supplier of water for both drinking and irrigation. It was understood that over 50 per cent of agriculture in the country was still rain-fed, and so water conservation and rainwater harvesting — ensuring that every well and waterbody was recharged — was critical for productivity and well-being. In the 2010s, the crisis of urban drought hit home. Policy evolved as it learnt that augmenting water supply was only a part of the challenge — cities were getting dependent on long-distance sources; pumping and piping this water meant losses in distribution and rising electricity costs, which made the available water expensive and its supply inequitable. As water supply dried up, people turned to groundwater, but without recharge — ponds and tanks had been decimated by real estate or simply through neglect— it only meant declining water levels. That was the decade when water supply was linked to pollution — more water supply meant more wastewater. This, without adequate treatment, leads to pollution of rivers and waterbodies, which in turn destroys available water; increases the cost of cleaning up drinking water. Also Read - Fraught with limitations A few years later, research showed that the bulk of urban residents were not even connected to underground sewerage networks, which is capital- and resource-intensive. Instead, they depended on on-site sewage "disposal" systems, where household toilets were connected to septic tanks or just holding tanks or even to open drains in the vicinity. The sewage treatment infrastructure was not designed to fit the city sanitation system and so remained underutilised. Rivers remained polluted. In all this, new solutions emerged — if affordable water supply was critical, then cities needed to cut the length of distribution pipelines, which meant increased focus on local water systems like ponds, tanks and rainwater harvesting structures. Then, if cities needed to ensure affordable sanitation for all and affordable treatment of wastewater, on-site systems could be re-engineered so that waste was collected from each household, transported and treated. But most importantly, we have learnt that if this urban-industrial wastewater is treated for reuse then water will not be lost; our rivers will not be lost. Moreover, this means, doing everything from investing in water-efficient irrigation and household appliances to changing diets to ensure that the crops we eat are water-prudent. This decade, we can put all that we have learnt into practice to turn around the water story of India, as in this decade we will see the revenge of nature as climate change impacts grow. We need to scale up our work to invest in local water systems to capture every drop of rain so that we can build local resilience against drought. We also need to do this in our cities — the lakes and ponds are the sponges that will allow us to harvest the rain-flood and to make sure it does not turn into wasted water. Then we need to protect our forest and green spaces as this is how groundwater will get recharged. In times of water stress, we must make sure that wastewater — sewage — is not only treated but also recycled and reused. It is here that the water bodies we protect in our cities — the same ponds and tanks that we use to divert and harvest rainwater — could be used to channelise the treated sewage and in turn recharge groundwater. Only this approach can make us water-secure. DTE The writer is the Director-General of CSE and editor of DownToEarth. Views expressed are personal

Climate change and global warming behind an increase in lightning incidents and more deaths

49 people have died of lightning in the last three days in Uttar Pradesh prompting the government to issue guidelines regarding what to do and what not to during thunderstorms On Tuesday, four members of a family, while working on the farm in the north Indian city of Kaushambi, took shelter under a tree when it started raining. Within minutes lightning struck, killing all four of them. Superintendent of Police, Kaushambi, Hem Raj Meena said that the death was instantaneous. Three more villagers who were standing under another tree also died of lightning the same day. These seven were among 49 people who died of lightning in the last three days in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh prompting the government to issue guidelines regarding what to do and what not to do during thunderstorms. “Lightning is striking in a big way this year. People are dying more of lightning than rain-related incidents, though this is the time when people die of floods or other rain-related incidents,” government spokesman Shishir Singh said. He said among the 49 people who have died of lightning, most were farmers working in their fields or cattle grazers. In neighbouring Bihar, 20 people died of lightning in the last 48 hours, while 16 people died in Madhya Pradesh early this month. Lightning is the occurrence of natural electric discharge of very short duration and a high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud accompanied by a bright flash and typically thunder too. It occurs in a flash of seconds and hence the impact is sudden, unlike other disasters. Col Sanjay Srivastava, convener of the Lightning India Resilient Campaign, an organisation that is working with the Indian Meteorological Department to create awareness among people about lightning, said that lightning has been extreme promulgation of climate change extremities, mainly due to environmental degradation because of deforestation, depletion of water bodies, pollution and global warming. J P Gupta, Director, Meteorological Department, said that this year the incidents of thunderstorms and lightning have increased because of harsh summer and an increase in pollution levels. “High ground temperature leads to evaporation from water bodies that add moisture to the atmosphere. Presence of aerosols due to air pollution creates favourable conditions for thunderclouds to trigger lightning activity,” Gupta said and added, “So, an increase in the events of lightning could be either associated with an increase in heated surface areas, increase in moisture levels or both”. Thunderbolts contain as much as a billion volts of electricity and can cause immense damage to buildings when they hit. The number of strikes has risen sharply as India has recorded more than 18 million lightning strikes between April 2020 and March 2021, according to a study by the non-profit Climate Resilient Observing Systems Promotion Council. Sunita Narain, Director General Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), said that global warming seems to have direct relation with the increase in the incidents of lightning. The annual Lightning Report 2020-21 shows that a 1-degree C rise in temperature increases lightning by 12 times. Lightning Resilient India Campaign claims there has been a 34 per cent rise in lightning strikes in the country in one year. It has advanced from 1,38,00,000 strikes in 2019-2020 to 1,85,44,367 strikes in 2020-2021, an increase of 46,83,989 strikes. With the increase in strikes, the number of deaths has also increased. Col Srivastava said that in 2016, India recorded 1,489 deaths while it went up to 2,869 in 2021. “These deaths are those where the government has paid compensation while there must be hundreds of people who died of lightning across India without the knowledge of government officials,” Srivastava said. Since April this year, 750 people have died across India, claims Srivastava. “All these deaths are preventable. The solution is there to stop deaths but the governments are keen in disbursing money after the death of a person. Technical problems need to be solved with a scientific approach but the government does not understand that,” Srivastava said. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced Rs 4 lakh as compensation for those who die of lightning. “This money should be used to strengthen the alarm system to prevent death rather than distributing it to mourn the death,” he said. The IMD and Indian scientists have developed a mobile app 'Damini' that seeks to provide real-time warnings about imminent strikes and precautions to be taken. But this app is of no use as the majority of the people in rural areas, where strikes are common, have no access to smartphones. They do not even know not to take shelter under a tree and avoid open areas in a thunderstorm, as CSE claims over 66 per cent deaths due to lightning occurred when people took shelter under trees.

Lightning kills 49 this week in U.P., experts say rise in strikes could be due to climate change

After 49 people died in lightning strikes this week in Uttar Pradesh, the state government issued guidelines for how people can protect themselves during a lightning storm Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in Uttar Pradesh, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. The farmers had taken shelter under trees during a drenching monsoon rain when they were struck by lightning Tuesday and died instantly. The victims included four members of a family and some cattle grazers near the city of Kaushambi, according to police officer Hem Raj Meena. The high death toll has prompted the government to issue new guidelines for how people can protect themselves during a lightning storm, said state government spokesman Shishir Singh. "People are dying more from lightning than rain-related incidents, though this is the time when people (typically) die of floods or other rain-related incidents,” Singh said. High death toll in India Col. Sanjay Srivastava, whose organisation "Lightning India Resilient Campaign" works with the Indian Meteorological Department, said lightning has killed nearly 750 people across India since April. That includes 20 people who died in eastern Bihar state in the past two days and 16 in Madhya Pradesh state in central India earlier this month. Sunita Narain, director-general of the Center for Science and Environment, said global warming plays a role in the rising number of lightning strikes. A one-degree Celsius rise in temperature increases lightning by 12 times. Mr. Srivastava said that deforestation, the depletion of bodies of water, and pollution all contribute to climate change, which leads to more lightning. J. P. Gupta, director of the Meteorological Department, said thunderstorms and lightning have increased this year due to an increase in pollution levels. “High ground temperature leads to evaporation from water bodies that adds moisture to the atmosphere. The presence of aerosols due to air pollution creates favorable conditions for thunderclouds to trigger lightning activity,” Mr. Gupta said. More than 200 people have been killed in heavy downpours and mudslides in Indian states including Assam, Manipur, Tripura and Sikkim, while 42 people have died in Bangladesh since May 17. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in the monsoon season.

印度北方邦一周49人死于“夺命闪电”

观察者网讯）印度每年6-9月进入雨季，此时降雨量增加，并伴发雷电天气。但据统计，仅过去一周印度北方邦就有49人死于“夺命闪电”，而自4月以来雷击事件已造成全印度超过750人死亡。 美联社28日援引印度警方消息称，近一周内，仅印度北方邦一个村庄就有7人死于雷击，包括一个四口之家和一些放牧人，而他们大多数情况都是躲在树下避雨时被击中，并当场死亡。 对此，北方邦发言人辛格表示，通常情况下，这段时期与降雨相关的死亡会比较多，但如此高的雷击死亡人数也不得不让当地政府发布了闪电期间保护自己的科普指南。 至于雷击致死人数变多的原因，印度科学与环境中心研究所（CSE）负责人苏尼塔·纳拉因（Sunita Narain）表示，每当温度升高1摄氏度，闪电发生的频率就会增加12倍，全球变暖增加了这种事故的发生。而印度气象局（IMD）局长古塔普（J P Gupta）也解释称，“地表温度升高引起水分蒸发，增加了大气含水量，而空气污染导致的气溶胶则为雷雨云触发闪电活动创造了有利条件”。 “印度抵御闪电运动”（Lightning Resilient India Campaign）组织召集人斯里瓦斯塔瓦（Sanjay Srivastava）表示，污染水平不断上升引发气候变化，导致暴雨雷电天气增多。但由于印度政府缺位，那些社区的安全保护运动根本无法覆盖到诸如农场、海岸、河流附近等那些真正面临着雷击危险的人群。 根据该组织统计，自4月以来，全印度因为雷击死亡人数已超过750人。其中包括前几天在东部比哈尔邦死亡的20人，以及本月早些时候在印度中部中央邦死亡的16人。

50 maut dipanah petir minggu ini di Uttar Pradesh, India

Sekurang-kurangnya tujuh orang, kebanyakannya petani, terbunuh dipanah petir di sebuah kampung di negeri Uttar Pradesh di utara India, meningkatkan kehilangan nyawa minggu ini akibat bencana alam itu kepada 49 orang. Difahamkan, petani terbabit berteduh di bawah pokok ketika hujan monsun yang lebat apabila mereka disambar petir Selasa lalu dan mati serta-merta di tempat kejadian. " Mangsa termasuk empat ahli keluarga dan beberapa penternak lembu berhampiran bandar Kaushambi," menurut pegawai polis, Hem Raj Meena. "Angka kematian yang tinggi menyebabkan kerajaan mengeluarkan garis panduan baharu bagaimana orang ramai boleh melindungi diri mereka ketika ribut petir," kata jurucakap kerajaan negeri, Shishir Singh. "Orang ramai lebih banyak mati akibat petir berbanding musibah berkaitan hujan, walaupun inilah masa lazimnya berlaku kematian akibat banjir atau tragedi lain berkaitan hujan," kata Singh. Musim tengkujuh India berlangsung dari Jun hingga September. Kolonel Sanjay Srivastava, yang bekerja dengan Jabatan Meteorologi India, berkata panahan petir sudah membunuh hampir 750 orang di seluruh India sejak April lalu. Jumlah itu termasuk 20 orang yang maut di timur negeri Bihar dalam dua hari lalu dan 16 di negeri Madhya Pradesh di tengah India awal bulan ini. Ketua Pengarah Pusat Sains dan Alam Sekitar, Sunita Narain berkata pemanasan global menyebabkan peningkatan berlakunya panahan kilat. Kenaikan suhu satu darjah Celsius meningkatkan kemungkinan menghasilkan kilat sebanyak 12 kali ganda. Srivastava berkata penebangan hutan, penyusutan takungan air, dan pencemaran menjadi penyumbang kepada perubahan iklim, yang membawa kepada lebih banyak kilat. Pengarah Jabatan Meteorologi, J P Gupta, berkata ribut petir dan kilat juga meningkat tahun ini berikutan peningkatan tahap pencemaran. "Suhu tanah yang tinggi membawa kepada penyejatan sumber air semula jadi seperti kolam, tasik dan sungai, sekali gus menambah kelembapan di atmosfera. "Kehadiran aerosol akibat pencemaran udara mewujudkan keadaan yang baik untuk awan petir mencetuskan aktiviti kilat," kata Gupta. Lebih 200 orang terbunuh dalam hujan lebat dan banjir lumpur di beberapa negeri di India termasuk Assam, Manipur, Tripura dan Sikkim, manakala 42 orang maut di Bangladesh sejak 17 Mei lalu selain beratus ribu orang kehilangan tempat tinggal pada musim tengkujuh. - AFP

49 Orang Meninggal Tersambar Petir dalam Sepekan di India Utara

Polisi India melaporkan pada Kamis (28/7/2022), tujuh orang yang sebagian besar petani meninggal dunia akibat tersambar petir di sebuah desa di negara bagian Uttar Pradesh. Jumlah korban meninggal akibat tersambar petir menjadi 49 orang di wilayah itu hanya dalam satu pekan saja. Para petani telah berlindung di bawah pohon selama hujan muson ketika mereka disambar petir pada Selasa (26/7/2022), kemudian meninggal seketika. Petugas polisi Hem Raj Meena mengatakan, para korban termasuk empat anggota keluarga dan beberapa penggembala ternak di dekat kota Kaushambi. Musim muson India berlangsung dari Juni hingga September. Juru bicara pemerintah negara bagian di India bagian utara Shishir Singh menyatakan, jumlah korban meninggal yang tinggi telah mendorong pemerintah untuk mengeluarkan pedoman baru tentang cara melindungi diri selama badai petir. "Orang-orang lebih banyak meninggal karena petir daripada insiden terkait hujan, meskipun ini adalah saat ketika orang (biasanya) meninggal karena banjir atau insiden terkait hujan lainnya," ujarnya. Penggerak organisasi “Lightning India Resilient Campaign" Kolonel Sanjay Srivastava mengatakan, petir telah menewaskan hampir 750 orang di seluruh India sejak April. Jumlah ini termasuk 20 orang yang meninggal di negara bagian Bihar timur dalam dua hari terakhir dan 16 di negara bagian Madhya Pradesh di India tengah awal bulan ini. Direktur jenderal Pusat Sains dan Lingkungan Sunita Narain mengatakan, pemanasan global berperan dalam meningkatnya jumlah sambaran petir. Kenaikan suhu satu derajat Celcius meningkatkan petir 12 kali lipat. Srivastava mengatakan, penggundulan hutan, penipisan badan air, dan polusi, semuanya berkontribusi terhadap perubahan iklim yang menyebabkan lebih banyak petir. Sedangkan Direktur Departemen Meteorologi India J P Gupta menyatakan, badai dan kilat telah meningkat tahun ini karena peningkatan tingkat polusi. "Suhu tanah yang tinggi menyebabkan penguapan dari badan air yang menambah kelembapan ke atmosfer. Kehadiran aerosol akibat polusi udara menciptakan kondisi yang menguntungkan bagi awan petir untuk memicu aktivitas petir," kata Gupta. Lebih dari 200 orang meninggal dalam hujan lebat dan tanah longsor di negara bagian India termasuk Assam, Manipur, Tripura, dan Sikkim. Sementara 42 orang meninggal di Bangladesh sejak 17 Mei dengan ratusan ribu orang mengungsi di musim hujan.

Prawie 50 ofiar śmiertelnych uderzeń piorunów. W Indiach trwa sezon monsunowy

49 osób zginęło w tym tygodniu w wyniku uderzeń piorunów w stan Uttar Pradesh położonym na północy Indii. Ofiarami śmiertelnymi byli głównie rolnicy. Od kwietnia w kraju tym wyładowania atmosferyczne zabiły prawie 750 osób. W wiosce położonej w Uttar Pradesh zginęło w czwartek od uderzeń piorunów siedem osób. Tym samym bilans ofiar śmiertelnych wyładowań atmosferycznych w tym stanie w tym tygodniu wzrósł do 49. Rolnicy schronili się pod drzewem w trakcie silnych, monsunowych opadów deszczu i wówczas zostali rażeni piorunem. Zginęli na miejscu. Wśród ofiar znalazło się czterech członków tej samej rodziny i kilka osób pasących bydło. "Ludzie umierają częściej od piorunów" Wysoka liczba ofiar śmiertelnych skłoniła rząd do wydania nowych wytycznych dotyczących zachowania bezpieczeństwa podczas burzy - przekazał rzecznik rządu stanowego Shishir Singh. - Ludzie umierają częściej od piorunów niż w incydentach związanych z deszczem, chociaż jest to czas, kiedy ludzie (zwykle) umierają w powodziach - powiedział Singh. Sezon monsunowy w Indiach trwa od czerwca do września. Według danych rządowych, od kwietnia w Indiach pioruny zabiły prawie 750 osób. Jak zachować się podczas burzy w lesieLasy Państwowe Sunita Narain, polityk i działaczka na rzecz ochrony środowiska, powiedziała, że globalne ocieplenie odgrywa znaczącą rolę w rosnącej liczbie uderzeń piorunów. Jak przekazała, wzrost temperatury o jeden stopień Celsjusza powoduje 12-krotne zwiększenie się liczby błyskawic. J P Gupta, dyrektor Departamentu Meteorologicznego, powiedział, że liczba burz i piorunów w tym roku, które nawiedziły Indie, jest wyższa niż zwykle, co jest związane z zanieczyszczeniem powietrza. - Wysoka temperatura gruntu prowadzi do parowania ze zbiorników wodnych, które produkują do atmosfery wilgoć. Obecność aerozoli związanych z zanieczyszczeniem powietrza stwarza korzystne warunki dla tworzenia się chmur burzowych, w których tworzą się pioruny - powiedział Gupta.

Petir Tewaskan Hampir 50 Warga Uttar Pradesh, India

Tujuh orang, sebagian besar petani, tewas tersambar petir di sebuah desa di negara bagian Uttar Pradesh, India utara, kata polisi, Kamis (28/7). Korban-korban itu menjadikan jumlah orang yang tewas akibat tersambar petir menjadi 49 orang di negara bagian itu pekan ini. Para petani itu dilaporkan berlindung di bawah pohon selama hujan deras musiman yang diwarnai petir. Mereka tersambar dan tewas seketika, Selasa. Tingginya jumlah korban tewas mendorong pemerintah mengeluarkan pedoman baru tentang bagaimana melindungi diri selama badai petir, kata juru bicara pemerintah negara bagian Shishir Singh. “Saat ini banyak orang meninggal karena petir daripada karena insiden lain terkait hujan,” kata Singh. Musim hujan di India berlangsung dari Juni hingga September. Kolonel Sanjay Srivastava, seorang pejabat di Departemen Meteorologi India, mengatakan petir telah menewaskan hampir 750 orang di seluruh India sejak April. Itu termasuk 20 orang yang meninggal di negara bagian Bihar timur dalam dua hari terakhir, dan 16 lainnya di negara bagian Madhya Pradesh di India tengah, awal bulan ini. Warga di tepi sungai Gangga yang terdampak banjir setelah hujan lebat mengguyur Allahabad, memindahkan barang-barang mereka dengan menggunakan sampan, 28 Juli 2022. (Sanjay KANOJIA / AFP) Warga di tepi sungai Gangga yang terdampak banjir setelah hujan lebat mengguyur Allahabad, memindahkan barang-barang mereka dengan menggunakan sampan, 28 Juli 2022. (Sanjay KANOJIA / AFP) Sunita Narain, direktur jenderal Pusat Sains dan Lingkungan, mengatakan pemanasan global berperan dalam meningkatnya jumlah petir. Kenaikan suhu satu derajat Celcius meningkatkan jumlah petir hingga 12 kali lipat. Srivastava mengatakan bahwa penggundulan hutan, penipisan badan air, dan polusi berkontribusi pada perubahan iklim, yang pada akhirnya menyebabkan terciptanya lebih banyak petir. J P Gupta, direktur Departemen Meteorologi, mengatakan badai dan petir meningkat tahun ini karena peningkatan polusi. “Suhu tanah yang tinggi menyebabkan penguapan badan air sehingga menambah kelembaban atmosfer. Kehadiran aerosol akibat polusi udara menciptakan kondisi yang menguntungkan bagi awan petir untuk memicu aktivitas petir,'' kata Gupta. Lebih dari 200 orang tewas akibat hujan lebat dan tanah longsor di sejumlah negara bagian India termasuk Assam, Manipur, Tripura dan Sikkim sejak 17 Mei. Ratusan ribu orang terpaksa mengungsi pada musim hujan. [ab/ka]

Rayos matan a casi 50 personas en India esta semana

Cuatro miembros de una familia fueron víctimas de las tormentas eléctricas. Siete personas, en su mayoría agricultores, fallecieron por la caída de un rayo en una aldea del estado de Uttar Pradesh, en el norte de India, dijo la policía el jueves. El incidente elevó a 49 los fallecidos por rayos en la región esta semana. Los agricultores se habían cobijado de las fuertes lluvias del monzón debajo de árboles cuando fueron alcanzados por un rayo el martes y murieron al instante. Entre las víctimas registradas cerca de la ciudad de Kaushambi había cuatro miembros de una misma familia y algunos pastores, explicó el agente de policía Hem Raj Meena. El elevado número de muertes ha llevado al gobierno a publicar nuevas directrices sobre cómo protegerse durante una tormenta eléctrica, explicó el vocero del ejecutivo regional, Shishir Singh. “La gente está muriendo más por los rayos que por incidentes relacionados con la lluvia, aunque esta es la época en la que la gente (normalmente) fallece por inundaciones u otros incidentes relacionados con la lluvia”, indicó Singh. En India, la temporada del monzón va de junio a septiembre. El coronel Sanjay Srivastava, que trabaja con el Departamento Meteorológico de India, dijo que los rayos han causado casi 170 decesos en todo el país desde abril. Esto incluye 20 personas en el estado oriental de Bihar en los dos últimos días y otros 16 en la región central de Madhya Pradesh a principios de mes. Sunita Narain, directora general del Centro de Ciencia y Medio Ambiente, afirmó que el calentamiento global influye en el aumento de la incidencia de los rayos. Un incremento de la temperatura de un grado centígrado multiplica los rayos por 12. Srivastava apuntó que la deforestación, el agotamiento de los acuíferos y la contaminación contribuyen al cambio climático, lo que genera más rayos. J P Gupta, director del Departamento Meteorológico, dijo que las tormentas eléctricas y los rayos se han incrementado este año debido al aumento del nivel de contaminación. “La alta temperatura del piso causa más evaporación de las masas de agua, lo que añade humedad a la atmósfera. La presencia de aerosoles por la contaminación atmosférica crea condiciones favorables para que las nubes de tormenta desencadenen la actividad de rayos”, indicó Gupta. Más de 200 personas han muerto debido a los fuertes aguaceros y los deslaves en varios estados indios, incluyendo Assam, Manipur, Tripura y Sikkim, y otras 42 han perdido la vida en Bangladesh desde el 17 de mayo. Cientos de miles de personas se han visto desplazadas en la temporada del monzón.

Hindistan'da bu hafta yıldırım yüzünden 49 kişi öldü

Hindistan'ın kuzeyindeki Uttar Pradeş'te bu hafta içinde düşen yıldırılar sonucunda 49 kişi öldü. Hint polisi, son olarak Kaushambi kentinde bir köyde yıldırım düşmesi sonucu çoğu çiftçi 7 kişinin vefatı sonrası, bu hafta yıldırım sebebiyle ölen kişi sayısı 49'a ulaştı. Çoğu çiftçi olan kurbanların muson yağmurlarından korunmak için ağaçların altına sığındığı ve yıldırım çarpmasıyla öldüğü ifade edildi. Ölümlerin artması yüzünden eyalet hükümeti, yıldırımdan korunmanın yolları konusunda yeni yönergeler yayımladı. Nisandan beri 750 ölüm Hindistan'da muson mevsimi hazirandan eylüle kadar sürüyor. Meteoroloji Departmanına göre nisandan bu yana Hindistan'da yıldırım düşmeleri sebebiyle yaklaşık 750 kişi öldü. Sadece son iki gün içinde Bihar eyaletinde 20 kişi ölürken, temmuz başlarında Madya Pradeş eyaletinde 16 kişi yaşamını yitirdi. Sıcaklık bir derece artınca yıldırım olasılığı 12 kat artıyor Bilim ve Çevre Merkezi genel müdürü Sunita Narain, küresel ısınmanın artan yıldırım çarpmalarında rol oynadığını bildirdi. Sıcaklıktaki bir derecelik artışın, yıldırım düşme olasılığını 12 kat artırdığı ifade ediliyor.