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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicHumidity

Topic: humidity

84% of Indian districts prone to heatwaves, most of these also see extreme rainfall events

Report ‘Managing Monsoons in a Warming Climate’ by IPE Global & Esri India says frequency, intensity & unpredictability of extreme heat, rainfall events have also risen in recent decades.

Not heat waves, it’s the dangerous mix of heat and humidity that hurt you more

When will it get too hot for normal routines as we know them, even for young, healthy adults? The answer goes beyond the temperature you see on the thermometer.

We can take the heat, usually. But more heat waves are dangerous

Normally sweat evaporates off your skin and you cool down. But with high humidity, the air is already saturated with water vapour, and so evaporative cooling stops.

Warm and humid climate make rocks more brittle, accelerate weathering, study finds

New study by University of North Carolina confirms that increased humidity in air and rising temperatures leads to rocks weathering faster.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.