Sizzling Capital Summer
As a student at Bangalore in the early nineties, one experienced the change in temperature within the IISc campus, guaranteed to be 2 degrees cooler than the rest of the garden city. (Sigh!) ... that was another century! Apologies - I know Delhi is always in the news, and I'm adding more bytes. Just sharing a note on the summer temperature levels. If it is 43 degrees in and around Lutyen's Delhi, Palam (yes, the airport locality) is invariably at 45+. I have never heard any of the weather anchor persons mention this fact. (Perhaps I too have noted it because I happen to reside in a sprawling sub-city Dwarka located quite 'near' the very happening airport). Here are indicative figures (all in degree Celsius, figures courtesy the daily newspaper, available at IMD ) since the onset of summer - 23 April 2010- 39 (City), 39 (Safdarjung), 40 (Palam) 29 April 2010 - 41, 41, 43 7 May 2010 - 35, 35, 36 18 June 2010 - 42, 42, 43 19 June 2010 - 43, 43, 45 20 June 2010 - 45, 45, 4...