New Delhi: You must peek at your mobile screen to check the temperature outside, see the application displays 38 degrees Celsius – with a small box next to it warn “feels like 43 degrees”.
Yes, it seems uncomfortable than.
38 degrees.
But what makes it feel like 43? The answer is the hot index, which factors in relative humidity and dew point, among other parameters, to notify you what really feels like today’s weather.
For sad Delhies, data from the last week shows a difference of 6 degrees between the actual temperature and heat index, which means you will find the outside temperature closer to 48 degrees Celsius than 42.
On Monday, while the temperature around 2:30 a.m.
is 40 The degree, the “feel like” index determines it to 46 degrees.
On Tuesday at the same time, the thermometer showed 41.6 degrees and hot indices, 44.
Higher humidity, greater difference between two temperatures.
Navdeep Dahiya, an amateur Weatherman and the founder of the weather of India, analyzed the heat index every day, using a formula that combines the level of moisture.
He said the difference between real temperatures and felt usually increased at this time this year due to high moisture.
“The hot index looks at the air temperature in terms of relative humidity,” explained Dahiya.
“In lay lay, it is a temperature felt by the human body in the shade.
Generally sweating is common when high humidity and this is an important feature of Delhi-NCR weather towards the end of June and in the months of Monsun to August.” Dry heat, Dahiya showed, between April and mid-June, with less sweating felt more comfortable even if Celsius reading was higher.
“Heatwa conditions are recorded in that period, with water content sometimes as low as 10%,” he said.
In the last 24 hours, the relative moisture of Delhi oscillates between 25% and 78%, according to IMD data.
In the past week, while the temperature in Safdarjung, Delhi Pangkalan Station, at 2:30 p.m.
on June 21 was 35.8 degrees, 49% humidity made him feel like 42 degrees.
On June 23, 40 degrees felt like 44 degrees due to 31% moisture and on June 24, the humidity of 55% made a temperature of around 36.8 degrees more than 48 degrees.
Even on Tuesday, Delhiit suffered a sweaty condition.
While the weather application on the phone shows a temperature of 41.6 degrees at 2:30 a.m., high moisture takes it to a sensory level of 44 degrees.
Kuldeep Srivastava, scientists at the IMD, said the meteorological department had long been stopped showing a hot index even though it was a good indicator of the actual weather implications.
“This shows the level of discomfort and is very important when there is a warm wind blowing or high moisture level,” he said.