YANGON: Myanmar recorded its hottest ever April temperature of 48.2 degrees Celsius ( 118.76 Fahrenheit ), authorities said Monday, as the Southeast Asian nation bakes in a heatwave.
The temperatures in the area of Chauk in the center of Myanmar’s Magway place on Sunday reached 48.2C, according to a declaration from the government’s weather office. This was the highest April high recorded anywhere in the country since records first appeared 56 years ago.
According to the wind company, the same day, the temperature hit 40C in Yangon’s industrial hub and 44C in Mandalay, the second area.
” It was too warm here, and all of us only stayed at home”, said one resident of Chauk, which is located in Myanmar’s arid central plains.
” We can do nothing when it’s like this”, he told AFP, asking not to be named.
Across swathes of Myanmar’s parched homeland daytime temperatures next Thursday were 3- 4C higher than the April common, according to the region’s climate monitor.
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization reported that Asia was warming at a particularly fast rate, with the effects of bushfires in the region becoming more intense next year, and that global temperatures reached record highs.
According to studies, wildfires are more, more frequent, and more intense because of climate change.
