{"id":584427,"date":"2023-06-14T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T07:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=584427"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T07:25:09","slug":"power-demand-peaks-in-delhi-as-capital-feels-like-50c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-peaks-in-delhi-as-capital-feels-like-50c\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand peaks in Delhi as Capital \u2018feels like\u2019 50\u00b0C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A maximum temperature hovering close to 45 degrees Celsius (\u00b0C) in parts of city, coupled with uncomfortably warm winds, and humidity meant that Delhi residents felt the onslaught of the heat even stronger than it actually was, with the \u201creal feel\u201d soaring to around 50\u00b0C on Tuesday, pushing the city\u2019s power demand to the year\u2019s highest.<\/p>\n<p>While at Safdarjung, Delhi\u2019s base weather station, the maximum temperature stood at 41.8\u00b0C hot winds of over 30kmph and a relative humidity of 37% meant that the impact of heat was exacerbated. This meant that the Heat Index (HI), known colloquially as \u201creal feel\u201d temperature, actually stood at around 50\u00b0C at 2.30pm, according toHT\u2019s calculation, which employed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calculator to find out heat index based on relative humidity and temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A maximum temperature hovering close to 45 degrees Celsius (\u00b0C) in parts of city, coupled with uncomfortably warm winds, and humidity meant that Delhi residents felt the onslaught of the heat even stronger than it actually was, with the \u201creal feel\u201d soaring to around 50\u00b0C on Tuesday, pushing the city\u2019s power demand to the year\u2019s highest. While at Safdarjung, Delhi\u2019s base weather station, the maximum temperature stood at 41.8\u00b0C hot winds of over 30kmph and a relative humidity of 37% meant that the impact of heat was exacerbated. This meant that the Heat Index (HI), known colloquially as \u201creal feel\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}