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‘Discomfort may increase’: Asia’s heat wave scorches hundreds of millions

April is typically hot in South and Southeast Asia, but temperatures this month have been unusually high.

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.

The weather across the region in April is generally hot, and comes before Asia’s annual summer monsoon, which dumps rain on parched soil. But this April’s temperatures have so far been unusually high.

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Asia’s heat wave isn’t happening in a meteorological vacuum. Last year was Earth’s warmest by far in a century and a half. And the region is in the middle of an El Niño cycle, a climate phenomenon that tends to create warm, dry conditions in Asia.

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GBU_28 ,

Wet bulb temperature coming for us

SlopppyEngineer ,

That’s the opening scene of “The Minister for the future” by Kim Stanley Robinson. Millions of people dead in an extreme heatwave in Asia. It’s not going to stay fiction for that long.

GBU_28 ,

I’ll check it out

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The weather across the region in April is generally hot, and comes before Asia’s annual summer monsoon, which dumps rain on parched soil.

Nur-e-Alam, who pulls a rickshaw by hand in Dhaka’s Mogbazar area, said he had scaled back to five to seven hours a day, down from eight to 10, because of the heat.

The heat wave poses similar challenges in neighboring India, where extreme temperatures have strained power grids, forced school closures, and threatened the production of wheat and other crops.

Extreme heat also has a political dimension in Myanmar, where the ruling military junta cited soaring temperatures last week as justification for moving Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s ousted civilian leader, from prison to an undisclosed location.

Many people in Myanmar believe that generals are moving her for other reasons but using the heat — the capital recently hit 114.8 degrees Fahrenheit — as a pretext.

And the region is in the middle of an El Niño cycle, a climate phenomenon that tends to create warm, dry conditions in Asia.

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