DHAKA: Bangladesh's weather bureau said on Wednesday that last month was the hottest April on record, with the South Asian nation and much of the region still enduring a suffocating heat wave. Punishing heat last month prompted Bangladesh's government to close schools across the country, keeping an estimated 32 million students at home. We've not seen such unbroken and expansive heat waves before," Bangladesh Meteorological Department senior forecaster Muhammad Abul Kalam Mallik told Agence France-Presse (AFP). AdvertisementMallik added that the bureau was checking data to confirm whether this year marked record low rainfalls for April. The months preceding the region's monsoon, or rainy season, are usually hot, but temperatures this year are well above average in many countries.

Source: Manila Times May 01, 2024 16:36 UTC