Brazil: Health warnings as country gripped by 'unbearable' heatwave

[Eugene]

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]

1. Fahrenheit: 99.14 degrees

[sl8]

3. And that's the lowest of the 3 temperatures mentioned.

42.5 °Celsius = 108.5 °Fahrenheit

58.5 °Celsius = 137.3 °Fahrenheit

[Think. Again.]

2. Just the beginning.

[CousinIT]

4. They keep mowing down the rainforests. They're killing themselves.

AND the rest of us.

Idiots.

[area51]

5. I think President Lula is trying to stop the deforestation

of the Amazon, unlike Bolsonaro who wanted to accelerate it.

[Magoo48]

7. True, but humanity is killing itself, across the board.

Greed, first world’s unwillingness to be inconvenienced, poverty and ignorance.

[CousinIT]

8. True. n/t

[czarjak]

6. Coming to a continent near U2!