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List of Indian heat waves

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This is a list of serious heat waves in India.

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Year||Duration||Max. temperature||Deaths||Ref
1956{{

convert|50.6|C|F}}

1995June{{convert|45.5|C|F}}>350[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1980&dat=19950617&id=yDtAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_K0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5707,3954685 "India would welcome monsoon to halt deadly temperatures"], The Item (Sumter), 17 June 1995.
1998May–June{{convert|49.5|C|F}}2,500[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1241&dat=19980612&id=FI5TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L4YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5859,2125235 "Heat wave is scorching India"], Daily News (Kingsport), 12–14 June 1998.
2002April–May{{convert|49|C|F}}1030
2015May–June{{convert|49.4|C|F}}2500
2016April–May{{convert|51.0|C|F}}160
2019May-June{{convert|50.8|C|F}}184This figure is for the state of Bihar only. There were further deaths in other states
2022March-June{{convert|49.2|C|F}}90
2023

|April–June

|{{convert|46.2|C|F}}

|111

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2024April-June{{convert|52.9|C|F}}411

Difficulties in estimation

Recent computerization of healthcare and adoption of diagnostic codes like ICD-10 makes tracking of causality during estimation harder, resulting in underestimations, despite more complete data being available upon diagnosis.{{cite journal |last1=Mazdiyasni |first1=Omid |last2=AghaKouchak |first2=Amir |last3=Davis |first3=Steven J. |last4=Madadgar |first4=Shahrbanou |last5=Mehran |first5=Ali |last6=Ragno |first6=Elisa |last7=Sadegh |first7=Mojtaba |last8=Sengupta |first8=Ashmita |last9=Ghosh |first9=Subimal |last10=Dhanya |first10=C. T. |last11=Niknejad |first11=Mohsen |title=Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves |journal=Science Advances |date=June 2017 |volume=3 |issue=6 |pages=e1700066 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1700066|pmid=28630921 |pmc=5462497 |bibcode=2017SciA....3E0066M }}{{cite journal |last1=Azhar |first1=Gulrez Shah |last2=Mavalankar |first2=Dileep |last3=Nori-Sarma |first3=Amruta |last4=Rajiva |first4=Ajit |last5=Dutta |first5=Priya |last6=Jaiswal |first6=Anjali |last7=Sheffield |first7=Perry |last8=Knowlton |first8=Kim |last9=Hess |first9=Jeremy J. |last10=Akiba |first10=Suminori |title=Heat-Related Mortality in India: Excess All-Cause Mortality Associated with the 2010 Ahmedabad Heat Wave |journal=PLOS ONE |date=14 March 2014 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=e91831 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0091831|pmid=24633076 |pmc=3954798 |bibcode=2014PLoSO...991831A |doi-access=free }}

See also

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