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Source: BBC
Brazil: Health warnings as country gripped by 'unbearable' heatwave
15 November 2023
By Kathryn Armstrong
BBC News
Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave.
Rio de Janeiro recorded 42.5C on Sunday - a record for November - and high humidity on Tuesday meant that it felt like 58.5C, municipal authorities said.
More than a hundred million people have been affected by the heat, which is expected to last until at least Friday.
Officials have attributed it to the El Niño phenomenon and climate change.
The city of São Paulo saw average temperatures of 37.3C on Tuesday afternoon, the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) reported.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67422663
no_hypocrisy
(48,818 posts)sl8
(16,245 posts)42.5 °Celsius = 108.5 °Fahrenheit
58.5 °Celsius = 137.3 °Fahrenheit
Think. Again.
(18,026 posts)CousinIT
(10,218 posts)AND the rest of us.
Idiots.
area51
(12,142 posts)of the Amazon, unlike Bolsonaro who wanted to accelerate it.
Magoo48
(5,367 posts)Greed, first worlds unwillingness to be inconvenienced, poverty and ignorance.