The heat this summer will be unprecedented

Published 27.04.2024 | By Йосиф

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The heat this summer will be unprecedented

philstarlife.com: Extreme heat scorched parts of South and Southeast Asia on Wednesday, forcing schools in the Philippines to suspend classes, heat warnings in the Thai capital and worshipers in Bangladesh to pray for rain.

The high temperatures came just a day after the United Nations said Asia is the region hit hardest by climate and weather hazards in 2023, with floods and hurricanes the leading causes of loss of life and economic losses.

Extensive scientific research has shown that climate change is causing heat waves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.

“It’s so hot you can’t breathe,” said Erlin Tumaron, 60, who works at a Philippine beach resort in Cavite province, south of Manila, where the heat index hit 47 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday.

The Philippine Department of Education, which oversees more than 47,600 schools, said nearly 6,700 schools suspended in-person classes on Wednesday.

There is also a 50 percent chance of increased heat in the coming days, Ana Solis, the government weather forecaster’s chief climatologist, told AFP.

She said people should limit their time spent outdoors, drink plenty of water and take umbrellas and hats with them when going outside to protect against the “extreme heat.”

Editorial Comment of The Big The One: The remark of a 60-year-old local guy about the fact that it is impossible to breathe is worth a lot. It’s one thing when “it’s so hot that you can’t breathe” says a Norwegian who visited the Sahara, it’s another thing when a Bedouin says the same thing. But in the Philippines everything is worse.

The country is located quite close to the equator and it is always warm there, but since the island is small, the climate there is maritime tropical with an average temperature of 25 degrees and it is only hot when the perceived temperature fluctuates due to humidity. 47 degrees Celsius in the shade is somehow too much for the Philippines.

We cannot say that we are very worried about South Asia. On the one hand, we are worried about the processes on the Sun, where some gigantic clusters of sunspots have already begun to gather, which act as one gigantic spot:

On the other hand, we worry about planet Earth, where, according to recent Wangs, water will soon disappear. If this summer it’s like the Philippines everywhere, that is, the average temperature jumps by twenty degrees, the water may actually evaporate in some places, so we’ll keep an eye on developments.

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