{"id":130181,"date":"2024-05-06T07:50:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/school-closures-and-health-warnings-south-and-southeast-asia-swelter-under-record-breaking-heat\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T07:50:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:50:46","slug":"school-closures-and-health-warnings-south-and-southeast-asia-swelter-under-record-breaking-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/school-closures-and-health-warnings-south-and-southeast-asia-swelter-under-record-breaking-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"School closures and health warnings: South and Southeast Asia swelter under record-breaking heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130181\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nTemperatures feel even hotter as high humidity reduces people\u2019s ability to stay cool. Heatwaves have caused school closures for millions of children and triggered health warnings across South and Southeast Asia. Temperature records don\u2019t show the whole story, however, with high humidity making it much harder for people to keep cool.<\/p>\n<p>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. &#8220;Thousands of records are being brutalized all over Asia, which is by far the most extreme event in world climatic history,\u201d weather historian Maximiliano Herrara said in a post on social media site X last week. Temperatures soared to 44C in parts of Thailand with the capital city Bangkok reaching 40C. The heat index &#8211; which measures how hot it actually feels due to humidity &#8211; was listed at a \u201cvery dangerous\u201d 52C on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>New highs over the last month have beaten records set as far back as 1958, according to the Thai Meteorological Department. The district of Lampang saw the highest temperatures so far this year at around 44.2C &#8211; just short of Thailand\u2019s all-time record of 44.6C seen in 2016 and 2023. The weather agency has said it expects this summer to be 1C to 2C warmer on average than it was last year.\u00a0In the Philippines, millions of students were told to stay at home on Monday after authorities cancelled classes for two days due to dangerous heat. More than 47,000 schools were ordered to switch to online at-home lessons by the Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>People were also advised to avoid outdoor activities and stay hydrated, with the elderly and young people particularly vulnerable. The heat index hit around 45C, according to the country\u2019s meteorological agency. That is within a range it considers \u201cdangerous\u201d as it could trigger heatstroke. Authorities in Bangladesh have also been forced to close schools twice in the last two weeks as temperatures reached 43C.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout April, a heatwave has been blazing across some parts of India as well. On 21 April, the eastern city of Bhagora hit a high of over 45C. A \u2018red alert\u2019\u201d warning was issued by the India Meteorological Department for several eastern and southern states on Tuesday with the weather agency warning that the heat was likely to get worse.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/05\/03\/school-closures-and-health-warnings-south-and-southeast-asia-swelter-under-record-breaking\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/05\/03\/school-closures-and-health-warnings-south-and-southeast-asia-swelter-under-record-breaking\"> Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/school-closures-and-health-warnings-south-and-southeast-asia-swelter-under-record-breaking-heat\/\">School closures and health warnings: South and Southeast Asia swelter under record-breaking heat<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[788,575,5007,14413],"class_list":["post-130181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asia","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-heat-wave","tag-south-and-southeast-asia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}