Blistering heat and soaring UV, humidity levels put Kerala on its toes

Blistering heat, soaring ultraviolet (UV) levels, oppressive humidity amplified by rising vigor scale values, and the municipality vigor land effect are making beingness progressively uncomfortable crossed Kerala during the highest of the summertime with residents reporting unease amid the sweltering, sultry conditions, which are expected to persist until the archetypal week of May.

Temperatures crossed the 40˚C people doubly past week successful Palakkad and are present dangerously hovering astir heatwave threshold levels astatine galore stations crossed the State, particularly successful Punalur and Palakkad. Coastal regions successful northbound Kerala, including Kannur and Kozhikode, person besides been experiencing sultry conditions owed to unusually precocious comparative humidity successful the air, which drives the ‘feels-like’ somesthesia dangerously high.