Scientists warn that searing temperatures across Asia are likely to spawn public health crises and food security problems. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A record-smashing heatwave has been scorching South and South-east Asia, with temperatures so searing in places like India’s West Bengal that people there are frying eggs under the heat of the noonday sun.
Populations across the continent are cranking up their air-conditioners and electric fans, seeking shelter in shopping malls and in their offices, or praying for rain.in thick, large crowds under the sun, and students are landing in hospitals as their schools bake in the heat.The continent is experiencing the “worst April heatwave” in its history, said climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera, who tracks extreme weather on his Twitter account.
At least two other states in India – Tripura in the north-east and West Bengal in the east – have ordered schools to shut this week as the temperature rose above 40 deg C. In the Philippines, where the temperature has hit 37 deg C, close to 150 secondary schoolchildren in a province south of capital Manila suffered heatstroke after a power outage hit their school. Seven of them fainted; two had to be taken to a hospital.Ms Dinky Rodriguez, 50, a digital content creator in Manila, told The Straits Times: “We try to bear with the heat as long as we can, but we really have to turn to the air-con when we can’t put up with it any more.
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