Hospitals are being overrun with heatstroke patients, huge crowds go to cold-water stations, and those who can afford to are moving away trees which used to provide shade have mostly been cut down and sold or used as fuel. Last month, Rahmat Tunio reported on the consequences of that change for a city of 300,000. A summer season that used to begin in May now begins in March.
On 14 May, the temperature in Jacobabad hit 51C, making it the hottest city in the world at the time.
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On Wednesday, for example, Doha News reported that delivery drivers are (illegally) being given only the “option” not to work between 10 and 330, but feel they have no choice – because most orders come at lunchtime, when nobody wants to go outside to get their own food. But there are still concerns about cases where those rules are ignored in ways that marry the demands of the on-demand economy with rising temperatures. Recent legislation has greatly expanded rules prohibiting outdoor work in the middle of the day, a response to intense criticism over the number of migrant workers dying due to heat stress. Yesterday, the high in Doha was 44C, compared to a historic June average of 41.7C. If common sense hadn’t prevailed and prompted a shift to a winter tournament, the World Cup would have begun last Friday in Qatar – when the temperature hit 49C, only 0.3C from the June record. 3,000 ‘excess deaths’ were linked to heatwaves in the UK in heatwaves between 20.Īnd while the 34C that is expected in the south east tomorrow - and the 29C in London today - are not unprecedented temperatures, that 34C level has been reached three times in the last six years - a consistency that alarms climate scientists. The UK Health Security Agency has issued several heat health alerts covering much of England for Friday, warning that the elderly and people with chronic health conditions are particularly at risk. While a great deal of coverage of good weather in the UK dwells - understandably - on beaches and ice cream, the growing health risks associated with historically abnormal temperatures are real. Here are a few examples of the consequences of extreme weather patterns that have been felt across the world in recent days: Researchers who used to focus on the victims of nuclear power station disasters or distance runners in the Sahara are now shifting to ordinary people in previously temperate environments the BBC is running explainers on ways to stay safe in extreme hot weather and warning of the risks of heat exhaustion.īut for all these universal consequences, the climate crisis is felt in specific ways depending on where you are – and its impacts are doled out unevenly.
With every passing year, understanding the effect of extreme heat becomes more relevant to more people. Photograph: Cristina Quicler/AFP/Getty Images Two women use fans to fight the scorching heat during a heatwave in Seville on 13 June 2022. In depth: From Arizona to Pakistan, humans are feeling the heat Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov is accused of being an agent of Russia’s GRU.
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