{"id":71396,"date":"2025-04-30T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/30\/india-and-pakistan-already-sweltering-in-new-normal-heatwave-conditions"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:00:14","slug":"india-and-pakistan-already-sweltering-in-new-normal-heatwave-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71396","title":{"rendered":"India and Pakistan already sweltering in \u2018new normal\u2019 heatwave conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures south Asians dread each year arrive early as experts talk of ever shorter transition to summer-like heat<\/p>\n<p>The summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it\u2019s only April. Much of India and Pakistan is already sweltering in heatwave conditions, in what scientists say is fast becoming the \u201cnew normal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures in the region typically climb through May, peaking in June before the monsoon brings relief. But this year, the heat has come early. \u201cAs far as Asia and the Indian subcontinent are concerned, there was a quick transition from a short window of spring conditions to summer-like heat,\u201d said GP Sharma, the meteorology president of Skymet, India\u2019s leading private forecaster.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/30\/india-and-pakistan-already-sweltering-in-new-normal-heatwave-conditions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures south Asians dread each year arrive early as experts talk of ever shorter transition to summer-like heatThe summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it\u2019s only April. Much of India and Pakis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4603,"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":[2331,65,2997,455,62,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-heat","category-extreme-weather","category-india","category-pakistan","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\/71396","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\/4603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71396\/revisions\/71397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}