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Vietnam’s Record-Breaking Heat Wave: A Look at the ‘Broken Mercury’ Phenomenon

Vietnam “broken mercury” – On May 4, VN Express reported that temperature Vietnam In April, the record was broken 110 times, more than 10 times the record for the whole year in 2023.

The National Meteorological Forecasting Center said a heat wave covered the northern and central areas of the country at the end of April. The average temperature in the northern and central regions was 2-4 degrees Celsius higher than the same period last year, and other regions had average temperatures 1-3 degrees Celsius higher.

Việt Nam “পর্ধ্টে” – A resident pumps underground water from a dry reservoir in Vietnam’s Ninh Thuan province on April 6. A total of 110 new high temperature records were broken across Vietnam on April 2 and more than 3 combined on 1 April only. than the same period last year. Photo: AFP

For 2023, Vietnam’s hottest month is May. This is when five heat waves hit resulting in the temperature reaching a record high of 44 degrees Celsius. and it became the hottest day since the beginning of 2024.

Two weather monitoring stations recorded a maximum temperature of 44 degrees Celsius in Tuong Duong. Nghe An Province The highest record was made on 30 April and Dong Ha city. Quang Tri province on April 28 was only slightly lower than Vietnam’s highest temperature ever recorded, which was 44.2 degrees Celsius on May 7 last year.

Vietnam’s “mercury burst” – Three heat waves swept northwest Vietnam and areas from Thanh Hoa to Phu Yen last month, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasts /thestar/.

This is a fisherman collecting dead fish from a reservoir in southern Vietnam after a large die-off in the middle of a heat wave. /phys.org/

According to media reports, the area has not seen any rain for weeks, and the water has reached too low for the fish. Temperatures in Dong Nai province reached around 40 degrees C in April, breaking the record temperature recorded in 1998. /phys.org/

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