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I'm experiencing this heat right now, albeit very very mild but still bad, in southern part of India.

Coming to climate modifying aerosols I haven't heard/read this being discussed. A comparable exercise, cloud seeding, was done couple of years ago. But it was very geographically limited. What we are experiencing right now is unprecedented. So I guess we just have to wait it out.

For comparison; Bangalore used to see high summer temperature of 32-34 about a decade ago. It's gotten progressively worse. To an extent that Bangalore reached ~35-36 as soon as summer months began, mid/late March.

By far the harshest heat I've experienced is back in 2015, early May in Delhi, India. I don't know what the temperature was but the blast of heat wave as soon as I exited from office building is vivid in my memory. Couple of days later I read in news that a few cars spontaneously caught fire around the office building I visited.

Also, fire broke out last week in Delhi last week[1]. So yeah, it's quite bad.

Edit: more content.

[1] https://www.india.com/news/delhi/video-delhi-bhalswa-landfil...




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