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Record-breaking Heat Wave Hits Myanmar and Bangladesh, Schools Forced to Close

(FILES) (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP)

Myanmar has the hottest April with temperatures above 48 degrees in Bangladesh. Schools were ordered to close all over the country to escape the heat wave.

AFP news agency reported that the Myanmar government informed that on April 29 Myanmar is experiencing the hottest April weather on record The temperature rose to 48.2 degrees Celsius in the middle of the raging heat wave.

The Myanmar Meteorological Office said the city with the highest temperature on April 28 was Chao, central Myanmar. The temperature reached 48.2 degrees Celsius, which is considered the highest temperature in April in Myanmar. Since a temperature was recorded in Myanmar 56 years ago,

The same day in Yangon The temperature was 40 degrees Celsius and in Mandalay it was 44 degrees Celsius.

One of the villagers in Muang Cho said that the weather is very hot. and they must stay at home. Without being able to do anything at all Due to the extremely hot weather

The Myanmar Meteorological Office said that throughout Myanmar the temperature is 3-4 degrees Celsius higher than the average temperature in April.

On April 29, a court in Bangladesh ordered schools across the country to stop teaching. Because of the heat wave that is still swelling in Bangladesh at the moment. This order came just one day after the new school started, with the order closing schools in Bangladesh. It will be closed until May 2nd.

Students walk out of school in hot weather in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 28. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP)

The report says that last year our world’s temperatures are at an all-time high. Meanwhile, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said that Asia will warm rapidly. This is as a result of heat waves in the region becoming more severe.

Although scientists’ research shows that global climate change As a result, heat waves last longer, become more frequent and more intense.

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