High temperatures have prompted authorities across the region to issue health warnings and forced schools to close.
A man douses himself with water along a street as hot temperatures continue in Manila, Philippines on Apr 26, 2024. The months of March, April and May are typically the hottest and driest in the region, but conditions this year have been worsened by the El Nino weather phenomenon.More than 47,000 public schools are affected. Many have no air-conditioning, leaving students to swelter in poorly-ventilated classrooms.over the weekend.
Professor Benjamin Horton, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore, said the underlying cause of extreme weather around the planet is human-induced climate change. “So when you move further north or south of the equator, you have stronger seasonal extremes. We know in Singapore, our temperature doesn't vary that much during the year,” he added.A tourist passes the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort on a hot day in Singapore on June 21, 2017. “Unfortunately here in Singapore, when we have periods of cloudless skies in the middle of the afternoon, you're going to have very, very hot temperatures,” said Prof Horton.
“We know that the higher the temperature gets, the more our bodies have to work to be able to cope with that heat.”“Part of the issue that we are seeing now is that overnight temperatures aren't dropping, so they're not allowing our bodies to cool and recover after periods of intense heat. So that's really one of the biggest challenges we have ahead of us,” Prof Bowen, who is deputy director of the Melbourne Climate Futures research institute, told CNA’s Asia First on Monday.
The heat could also affect people with pre-existing health conditions such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
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