{"id":6038,"date":"2024-05-01T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=6038"},"modified":"2024-05-01T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:20:18","slug":"april-temperatures-in-bangladesh-hottest-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=6038","title":{"rendered":"April temperatures in Bangladesh hottest on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><small>A vehicle of the Dhaka North City Corporation sprays water along a busy road to lower the temperature amidst a heatwave &#8211; Copyright AFP MUNIR UZ ZAMAN<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s weather bureau said Wednesday that last month was the hottest April on record, with the South Asian nation and much of the region still enduring a suffocating heatwave.<\/p>\n<p>Extensive scientific research has found climate change is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.<\/p>\n<p>Punishing heat last month prompted Bangladesh\u2019s government to close schools across the country, keeping an estimated 32 million students at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year the heatwave covered around 80 percent of the country. We\u2019ve not seen such unbroken and expansive heatwaves before,\u201d Bangladesh Meteorological Department senior forecaster Muhammad Abul Kalam Mallik told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>He said last month was the hottest April in Bangladesh since records began in 1948 \u201cin terms of hot days and area coverage in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Weather stations around Bangladesh had recorded temperatures between two and eight degrees higher than the 33.2 degrees Celsius (91.8 degrees Fahrenheit) average daily temperature for April between 1981 and 2010, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Health department spokesman Selim Raihan told AFP the government had confirmed at least 11 heat stroke-related deaths in the past 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>Rains are expected to bring some relief to Bangladesh from Thursday after a week of sweltering temperatures, with the capital Dhaka recording several days over 40C (104F).<\/p>\n<p>Mallik said the severity of the heat had been worsened by the absence of the usual pre-monsoon April thunderstorms which normally cool the South Asian nation ahead of summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBangladesh gets an average of 130.2 millimetres of rain in April. But this April we got an average of one millimetre of rain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mallik said the bureau was checking data to confirm whether this year marked record low rainfalls for April.<\/p>\n<p>Schools in Bangladesh will remain closed until Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The government ordered classrooms reopened last weekend, but a top Bangladeshi court directed them to be shut them again on Monday after taking into consideration reports that several teachers had died in the heatwave.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Life has become unbearable\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Thousands gathered at mosques and in open fields around the Muslim-majority nation last week to pray for rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife has become unbearable due to lack of rains,\u201d Muhammad Abu Yusuf, an Islamic cleric who led one such service, told AFP last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoor people are suffering immensely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Large swaths of South and Southeast Asia are sweltering through a heatwave that has topped temperature records from Myanmar to the Philippines, with the El Nino phenomenon also driving this year\u2019s exceptionally warm weather.<\/p>\n<p>Weather bureaus in Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam and India have also all forecast temperatures above 40C (104F).<\/p>\n<p>The months preceding the region\u2019s monsoon, or rainy season, are usually hot but temperatures this year are well above average in many countries.<\/p>\n<p>Asia is also warming faster than the global average, according to the World Meteorological Organization, a UN agency.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> April temperatures in Bangladesh hottest on record<br \/>\n<br \/>#April #temperatures #Bangladesh #hottest #record<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle of the Dhaka North City Corporation sprays water along a busy road 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