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Southeast Asia ‘in a frying pan’ as extreme heat ‘rewrites climatic history’ [1]
['Sarah Newey', 'Ben Farmer', 'Global Health Security Correspondent', 'In Bangkok', 'Africa Correspondent', 'In Cape Town']
Date: 2024-05-02 13:57:00+01:00
Inside the small classroom, 50 teenagers are struggling to keep cool. One of the two ceiling fans is broken, and the free-standing alternatives reach only a handful of the students.
“Imagine all 50 people, sharing those fans,” says Heart Coña, a grade 11 pupil in General Santos City, on the southern tip of the Philippines, where a punishing heatwave has driven temperatures above 40 degrees.
“The heat here is like standing under the blazing sun on a scorching summer day, except it lasts from morning ‘till evening,” the 17-year-old adds. “It’s the kind of heat that makes you feel like you’re melting, where seeking shade provides little relief as even the air feels hot to breathe.”
The temperatures have not only given Heart and her classmates headaches and heatstroke, but left their education in “disarray” because in-person lessons have been frequently suspended due to the heat and humidity.
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[1] Url:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/thailand-heatwave-asia-el-nino-climate-change-weather/
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