Brazil Hit by Heatwave, "Feels Like" Temperature Soars Beyond 50 Degrees Celsius
With the arrival of summer in the southern hemisphere, Brazil every year in November there will be a heat wave, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the 13th, the highest temperature soared above 40 degrees Celsius, the body temperature is even as high as 52 degrees Celsius, in view of the unprecedented high temperatures, the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) pointed out that nearly 3,000 cities and towns in Brazil have been issued a red alert, of which 1,138 municipalities are at a high level of risk, the wave will be a certain degree of harm to human health. The heat wave is expected to pose a certain degree of risk to human health.
Núbia Beray, coordinator of the Geoclimatic Laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, warns that "the high temperatures make it impossible for street vendors to work at all, as they are at risk of fainting or being killed.
This year, the El Niño phenomenon and the climate crisis have intensified, not only in terms of unusually warm air masses, but also in terms of the intensity and frequency of heat waves, which have led to unprecedented "heat" hazards for residents of the Southeast and Midwest, where São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are located, thus disrupting the pace of their lives.
According to the National Institute of Research, the heat wave will continue to ravage Brazil for the next two weeks, and other countries will be affected as well. In order to reduce climate hazards, Thomaz Garcia, a meteorologist at the Emergency Management Center in São Paulo, said that if sunlight hits the ground directly, the surface will absorb all the heat and heat up, and suggested expanding the area where trees are planted, so that the ground can be protected from direct sunlight by shade.
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