# Heat wave in India and Pakistan **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 2, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heat-wave-in-india-and-pakistan/963852 "2022-05-02T20:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heat-wave-in-india-and-pakistan/963852/21 "2022-05-09T19:42:43Z")
It was supposed to be hot and dry today. We are having a thunderstorm. 🙄 Hot and dry all this week. Temperature are supposed to be 7-10C above normal. With any luck that prediction will also be flag wrong. (Of course climate change is real, I am just hooking this heat wave isn’t). ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heat-wave-in-india-and-pakistan/963852/22 "2022-05-16T10:44:43Z")
> [@am77494](#): > > India will be just as fine as the world overall, if anything People will fare better because they are used to hardships. Perhaps India will be better off than the rest of the world, if they manage to keep their wheat to themselves: [https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/india-prohibits-wheat-exports-with-immediate-effect-2022-05-14/](https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/india-prohibits-wheat-exports-with-immediate-effect-2022-05-14/) > [@AK84](#): > > Temperature are supposed to be 7-10C above normal. > With any luck that prediction will also be flag wrong. And? Was it wrong? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heat-wave-in-india-and-pakistan/963852/23 "2022-05-16T10:51:34Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > And? Was it wrong? Yes. Until the weekend, when it became right again. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heat-wave-in-india-and-pakistan/963852/24 "2022-05-16T10:54:54Z")
That is not good, is it? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heat-wave-in-india-and-pakistan/963852/25 "2022-05-16T11:08:42Z")
Short answer is no and the long answer is fuck no. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heat-wave-in-india-and-pakistan/963852/26 "2022-08-28T15:19:34Z")
Three months later the heat wave has moved north - and stayed there for 70 days in a row: > **[China's worst heat wave on record is crippling power supplies. How it reacts...](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/26/china/china-sichuan-power-crunch-climate-change-mic-intl-hnk/index.html)** > > For years, scientists have been warning the climate crisis would amplify extreme weather, making it deadlier and more frequent. And now, like much of the world, China is reeling from its impact. This drought even has its own [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_China_heat_wave) and it has not finished yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heat-wave-in-india-and-pakistan/963852.md?page=1)