India has recently experienced more extreme heatwaves.
Intense heat is affecting India, and temperatures are expected to exceed 40ºC even in regions where heatwaves are not normally recorded.
Why the concern?
In addition to the very high temperatures, which are already harmful to health, there is an invisible factor in India, especially in coastal regions, that cannot be ignored.
This is the high humidity, the large amount of water vapour in the air, which affects many regions of India and, together with very high temperatures, poses a threat to health and has made the Indian summer unbearable: humid heat.
Humid heat is a combination of high temperatures and high humidity, which is more harmful to health than high temperatures with low humidity.
As the body heats up, sweat is released to cool it down. When we sweat, the body evaporates water from the skin, absorbing energy and reducing body temperature.
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