Chandrapur, Since the festival of Mahashivratri, the heat was gradually increasing and now the mercury is desperate to touch 40 degrees even before the arrival of Holi. In such a situation, after a long time on Tuesday, people experienced the summer season. Since this morning, the strong rays of the sun and the hot winds of heat kept people in trouble. In just 24 hours, the mercury rose by 1.6 degrees and reached 39.6 degrees Celsius.
The heat has started showing its effect in the whole of Vidarbha. On Tuesday, the highest temperature of Akola was recorded at 41.1 degrees Celsius. Wardha remained 40 degrees. The temperature of Amravati at number three was 39.8 degrees Celsius and following this, the temperature of Chandrapur, Bramhapuri and Nagpur was estimated at 39.6 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature of Washim was 39.5 °C, Gondia 38.8 °C, Buldhana 38 and Yavatmal recorded 37.5 °C.
Chandrapur ranks among the hottest cities in the world
Often after the burning of Holi, the mercury rises and the mercury reaches around 40 to 43 degrees. Which progresses from 45 to 46 degrees in April and reaches close to 48 as soon as the month of May arrives. Chandrapur city is ranked among the hottest cities in the world every year. Here the process of reaching the high mark of more than 48 degrees continues for many years.
Today is the beginning of summer in the true sense from Tuesday. Despite this, strong sunlight was felt since this morning. The heat of the heat made everyone’s condition miserable. In the scorching heat from 11 am onwards, people were seen escaping from the strong winds of heat by covering their heads and ears and mouth with clothes.
Chandrapur has the highest temperature every year
Chandrapur receives maximum heat every year as compared to other districts of Vidarbha because in addition to more than 700 small and big factories established in the district, besides coal mines, cement, paper, iron ore industries, besides the state’s largest power generating power thermal station CTPS It is in the same district. Due to the increasing industrialization here in the last decade, only 35 percent of the total forest is left, the network of cement concrete is spreading, due to which Chandrapur district is burning like a fire.
Anyway, the scorching heat is not new for the people of Chandrapur. Every year in April and May, fire rains from the sky. But here in the second half of March itself, it is natural for the mercury to go up to 45 degree Celsius in the month of April due to the increase of 40 degree Celsius temperature. This is the reason that the number of people suffering from heat stroke also increases in these two months. The people here have become accustomed to the heat, but the havoc of heat tests people’s stamina every year.
Heat wave likely to increase
In the coming few days, there is a possibility of increase in the incidence of heatstroke in the district due to strong sunlight and rising mercury, so it is necessary to avoid it. Those who work in the fields for long hours, in the boiler rooms of factories and furnaces of glass factories, those who wear tight and thick clothes are more prone to heat stroke. When the patient becomes a victim of heat stroke, the patient starts showing symptoms like fatigue, fever and dryness of the skin. The victims do not feel hungry and start feeling dizzy.
In many cases, the patient becomes unconscious due to increased blood pressure. To avoid heatstroke, avoid working hard during summers, wearing white clothes without using heat absorbing clothes, drinking plenty of water, taking rest in the shade for short periods of time while working in the sun, avoiding the sun The district administration has advised to use spectacles, cap, gamchha etc. while leaving.
Apart from this, measures such as keeping the patient in a ventilated room near the fan and cooler, taking a bath with ice water, keeping a band of cold water on the patient’s forehead have been advised. It is advisable to cover your head, nose and ears with a cloth while going out in strong sunlight.