School closures and health warnings: South and Southeast Asia swelter under record-breaking heat
Heatwaves have caused school closures for millions of children and triggered health warnings across South and Southeast Asia. Temperature records don’t show the whole story, however, with high humidity making it much harder for people to keep cool. These dangerous conditions increase the chances of exhaustion and heatstroke and can even be deadly. Severe heatwaves have already been blamed for almost three dozen deaths across the region. “Thousands of records are being brutalized all over Asia, which is by far the most extreme event in world climatic history,” weather historian Maximiliano Herr...