In a world growing accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few weeks have taken those environmental extremes to a new level.
In sweltering Brazil, flooding killed dozens and paralyzed a city of about 4 million. Voters and politicians in the world's largest election, in India, are fainting in temperatures as high as 115 degrees. A brutal heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, caused fatalities in Thailand and set temperature records there and in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives and Myanmar. Record temperatures — especially at night, when it just won't cool down — have hit parts of Africa.
“What this means is that it is increasing not only the frequency and severity of many weather extremes but also that the risk of compound events is increasing.” In just the first five days of May, 70 countries or territories broke heat records, said climatologist Maximiliano Herrera, who tracks temperature records across the world. Nandyala and Kadapa in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh set an all-time high at 115 degrees, Herrera said.
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