A laborer covers himself with a cloth to protect from the sun as he pulls a rickshaw carrying wooden logs on a hot summer afternoon in Hyderabad, India, Friday, May 20, 2016.(Photo: Mahesh Kumar A., AP)
India sweltered to a scorching 123.8 degrees Thursday, setting a new all-time high that breaks a 60-year-old record, the India Meteorological Department said.
Officials recorded the blistering temperature in Phalodi in Rajasthan state in the northwestern part of the country. It bests a record most recently set in 1956 of 123.1 degrees<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in the city of Alwar, also in Rajasthan. That temperature was also recorded<span style="color: Red;">*</span>May 25, 1886 in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Pachpadra in the same state.
The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth is 134 degrees in Death Valley, Calif., on July 10, 1913.
A severe heat wave warning is in place for much of India through Saturday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Temperatures in northern India have risen above 104 degrees for weeks, the BBC reported. The weather has killed hundreds of people and destroyed crops in more than 13 states, the Associated Press reported.
April and May tend to be the hottest months of the year in India, before the cooling effects of the summer monsoon rains arrive in June. But those<span style="color: Red;">*</span>rains also bring the potential for deadly flooding.
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