MANILA – South and South-east Asia braced itself for more extreme heat on April 28 as authorities across the region issued health warnings and residents fled to parks and air-conditioned malls for relief. A wave of exceptionally hot weather has blasted the region...
Grade 12 students use hand fans as they attend a class at the Commonwealth High School, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, on April 18.MANILA – South and South-east Asia braced itself for more extreme heat on April 28 as authorities across the region issued health warnings and residents fled to parks and air-conditioned malls for relief.
And in Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, India and Bangladesh, forecasters warned that temperatures could exceed 40 deg C in the coming days as people endured searing heat and stifling humidity. And on April 28, the national forecaster predicted temperatures in the central city of Mandalay could rise to 43 deg C.
India’s weather department said on April 27 that severe heatwave conditions would continue through the weekend in several states, with temperatures soaring to 44 deg C in some locations. “I went to the school with my 13-year-old daughter. She was happy her school was open. But I was tense,” said Lucky Begum, whose daughter is enrolled at a state-run school in Dhaka.
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