India has been shrouded in hot weather since March, with temperatures in some areas reaching as high as 47 degrees Celsius and approaching 50 degrees Celsius in recent days, while a garbage dump area in New Delhi spontaneously combusts due to the continuous high temperature, and the fire is as spectacular as a volcanic eruption. In recent years, with the global warming of the climate, extreme heat has become more and more frequent, and the record for the highest temperature around the world has been repeatedly broken. India is a country located at a low latitude, and the annual high temperature and high humidity weather are commonplace.
India in high temperatures
Why india has such a high temperature, first of all, India is located in a low latitude region and the south is located on the equatorial line, the annual exposure to solar radiation for a long time and intensity, the temperature will naturally be higher. Secondly, northern India is the towering Himalayas, which block the cold air coming south from the Arctic Circle all year round, so that india's temperature does not get enough hot and cold exchange. In addition, India is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the monsoon blowing from the Indian Ocean is warm and humid, and the Northern Himalayas will block the warm and humid air flow of the Indian Ocean from moving north, resulting in a higher accumulation temperature in northern India. Once India is again affected by the superposition of subtropical high pressures, then there will be extreme high temperature weather processes.
Topography of India
India's garbage mountain is on fire
In recent years, with the global warming of the climate, india's hot weather has begun to become more and more extreme, and the duration has become longer and longer, resulting in thousands of deaths in India every year due to high temperature weather.
Why is the garbage mountain on fire? The landfill, which recently caught fire, was planned to close more than a decade ago, but more than 2,300 tons are filled every day. Due to India's backward infrastructure, the territory is full of garbage mountains, and the garbage mountains in the most populous New Delhi are even more terrifying, and the height of this garbage mountain is now more than 17 stories high and the size of more than 50 football fields. In order to facilitate the dumping of garbage generated by the city here, a simple winding road has even been built on this garbage mountain, and every day garbage trucks have to go to the top of the mountain to dump garbage, so this garbage mountain continues to grow, and even looks like a real mountain from a distance.
Garbage Mountain, New Delhi, India
India's garbage mountain is on fire
And the garbage piled up in the garbage mountain is mixed with various types of garbage, after the accumulation is easy to appear bacteria breeding, in the high temperature weather especially many bacteria, so that the airtight garbage mountain inside the hidden a large number of bacteria consume garbage emission methane, once there is too much methane exposed to the high temperature environment will ignite the entire garbage mountain. At present, this garbage mountain has been burning for 4 days, and a large amount of toxic gases are emitted into the air every day. In addition, three other landfills around New Delhi have also caught fire in recent weeks.
India in the night light
It can be said that global warming will continue to intensify with the change of time, while the frequency and duration of extreme low temperatures in winter and extreme high temperatures in summer and various floods and droughts will increase, and no one knows what kind of natural disasters we will encounter in the future.