akrain

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Comment · 2 years ago

Here is an archived version of the same story (from another website): https://archive.is/TE40H

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions. I will surely give them a try. The only recent Jazz musician that I have heard is Kamasi Washington.

Comment · 3 years ago

My blog about a few treks in the Indian Himalayas http://overthehills.in/

Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks for the reply. I tried to search for the passage but couldn't find it myslef.

Comment · 3 years ago

I can't recall the exact lines but Thomas Pynchon's V. has an interesting variation of this story.

Comment · 4 years ago

Apparently, IMD has released historical weather data last year and it is available here: https://www.imdpune.gov.in/Clim_Pred_LRF_New/Grided_Data_Dow...

However, it is in some weird binary format which I have no clue about. They have also shared some C and Fortran (yes Fortran) code to read the files.

Comment · 4 years ago

Actually, the record is correct but not for the city's main weather station. The temperature of 49C was recorded in two of the city's outer areas one of which was Najafgarh and other was Mungeshpur.

You can select those from the left nav on IMD's website and see the results yourself.

https://city.imd.gov.in/citywx/localwx.php

Study says Himalayan rivers will not be affected due to retreating glaciers cato.org

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Comment · 4 years ago

I live in a suburb of Delhi and to be honest it is not just the occasional days that it stays that high. This year it has consistently been above 40C since late March. Summer has just started and the hottest months are generally May and June. So, it is going stay like this for more than three months this year in all. Even worse is that unlike desert regions, even the night temperatures here stay above 30C many times during this part of the year. Sometimes you open the window at night expecting it to be better only to realize that a hot "breeze" is blowing.

Owing to the pandemic, I had spent the last couple of years in the foothills of the Himalaya where the temperature rarely went beyond 30C. It has been really hard coping up with the heat as it literally sucks the life out of you.

Ref: https://www.accuweather.com/en/in/delhi/202396/april-weather...

Strategists warn of big tech under pressure cnbc.com

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Comment · 4 years ago

Such are the vagaries of life.

Comment · 4 years ago

Paywall removed: https://archive.fo/A9uba

Comment · 4 years ago

According to the article:

"When using mandibles, the ants are careful to avoid hurting each other."

Not too much ouch then.