{"id":64500,"date":"2024-05-29T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T05:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/29\/delhi-temperature-hits-499c-as-indias-capital-records-hottest-day"},"modified":"2024-05-30T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T06:04:03","slug":"delhi-temperature-hits-49-9c-as-indias-capital-records-hottest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64500","title":{"rendered":"Delhi heatwave: officials investigating if temperature of 52.9C due to faulty sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meteorological department examining data from Mungeshpur station amid soaring temperatures that came close to 50 degrees Celsius<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2024\/may\/29\/india-heatwave-weather-delhi-record-temperatures-photos-pictures\">Record-breaking heat hits Delhi \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Authorities in India are investigating whether a faulty sensor may have been behind a reading that showed temperatures in Delhi soaring past 50 degrees for the first time, amid a scorching heatwave in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said it was <a href=\"https:\/\/mausam.imd.gov.in\/Forecast\/marquee_data\/Press%20Release_Delhi%20Temp.%20dated%20%2029-05-2024.pdf\">examining the data and sensors<\/a> at the Mungeshpur station after an unusually large variation in temperatures was recorded at the station compared to others.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/29\/delhi-temperature-hits-499c-as-indias-capital-records-hottest-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meteorological department examining data from Mungeshpur station amid soaring temperatures that came close to 50 degrees CelsiusRecord-breaking heat hits Delhi \u2013 in picturesAuthorities in India are investigating whether a faulty sensor may have been be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[353,455,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-extreme-weather","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64532,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64500\/revisions\/64532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}