Phalodi, India holds the new record for the hottest day ever recorded. Registering a searing 51 degrees Celsius (123.8F), the highest since records began, the temperature in Phalodi topped the previous record of 50.6 (123F) in the northern Indian town of Alwar on May 19.
Several hundred people are thought to have died during this year’s heat wave and more than 1000 died during India’s heat wave in 2015 mainly due to dehydration in the southern part of the country.
India declares a heat wave when the maximum temperature hits 45 degrees Celsius, or five degrees higher than the average for the area in previous years.
The heat in India pales into insignificance compared to the heat wave during the seven last plagues at the end of time. But perhaps this is a little taste of what it will be like.
“And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.” Revelation 16: 8, 9