Monsoons Bring Relief To Baking India As Heatwave Death Toll Reaches 334

HOT AND WET

AFP photo 2005

New Delhi (AFP) Jun 25, 2005
India's monsoon rains, vital for its farm-reliant economy, have advanced to cover more areas of the country and bring relief from a searing June heatwave that has claimed 334 lives, a weather official said.

"The southwest monsoon has advanced further into states like Orissa and Uttar Pradesh," a weather official in New Delhi said, referring to two states in the north and the east scorched by a heatwave over the past few weeks.

An official of the Orissa state government told reporters that the death toll due to baking temperatures in the state had climbed to 137.

But the monsoon rains "have been active in Orissa in the past 24 hours and have brought down temperatures," the official said.

The death toll across India due to the baking heat was 334, the Press Trust of India news agency said.

The monsoons struck India's mainland June 5, four days later than usual, and advanced over parts of southern India before stalling over the western state of Goa for more than a week.

Two years ago in western Maharashtra and southern Andhra Pradesh states more than 1,400 people died due to severe heat conditions.

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HEAT WAVE

NASA's Terra Satellite Watches Southern Asia Heat Wave Build

Greenbelt MD(SPX) Jun 22, 2005
A pre-monsoon heat wave left India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh baking for much of June 2005. The heat wave, which started at the end of May, has claimed more than 200 lives in India alone, according to news reports, and has also caused deaths in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

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