Local tourists cover their heads to shield from the heat as they buy drinking water bottles in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. A months-long heat wave across swathes of India has killed more than 100 people and led to over 40,000 suspected cases of heat stroke in the past three and a half months, according to data from India's Health Ministry.
India declares a heat wave whenever temperatures are above 40 C in the plains and 30 C or more in its hilly regions. The main summer months — April, May and June — are always hot in most parts of India before the monsoon rains bring cooler temperatures. Last year, more than 150 people died in India during heat waves. The government estimates nearly 11,000 people have died in heat waves this century, but experts say such figures are likely a vast undercount, since the lack of an efficient system to document heat-related illness and deaths remains a major issue.
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