{"id":32492,"date":"2024-04-22T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T09:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/discomfort-may-increase-asias-heat-wave-scorches-hundreds-of-millions\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T09:34:31","slug":"discomfort-may-increase-asias-heat-wave-scorches-hundreds-of-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/discomfort-may-increase-asias-heat-wave-scorches-hundreds-of-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Discomfort May Increase\u2019: Asia\u2019s Heat Wave Scorches Hundreds of Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of millions of people in South and Southeast Asia were suffering on Monday from a punishing heat wave that has forced schools to close, disrupted agriculture, and raised the risk of heat strokes and other health complications.<\/p>\n

The weather across the region in April is generally hot, and comes before Asia\u2019s annual summer monsoon<\/a>, which dumps rain on parched soil. But this April\u2019s temperatures have so far been unusually high.<\/p>\n

In Bangladesh, where schools and universities are closed this week, temperatures in some areas have soared above 107 degrees Fahrenheit, or 42 degrees Celsius<\/a>. Those numbers don\u2019t quite capture how extreme humidity makes the heat feel even worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to increasing moisture incursion, the discomfort may increase\u201d over the next 72 hours, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said in a notice<\/a> on Monday. In Dhaka, the capital, the humidity was 73 percent, and many areas in the country have experienced daily power outages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n