Bengaluru: Bengaluru's maximum temperature continuing to peak at 36.5, lower than Hyderabad which records temperatures of upto 40 deg C, but higher than Mumbai, Chennai and Kochi. The intensity of the heat in what used to be India's air-conditioned city has become unbearable, "even though the maximum temperature in the city hasn't even touched 37 deg, and in 2010, it was 37.6," Mr B. Puttanna, the director of the Meteorological Department said.
While environmentalists blamed it on the global phenomenon, El Nino, the Met office ascribed it to moisture-bearing winds flowing in from the coastal areas not having gathered strength to reach as far inland as Bengaluru.
There’s more. The city is paying the price for increasing urbanisation, done at the cost of natural resources and the ecosystem.
