Indonesia recorded its hottest April in more than four decadesTwo officials from Indonesia’s meteorological agency said this Wednesday, when the country suffers a heat wave and temperatures break records.
“The average air temperature in April 2024 was the highest compared to April in the period 1981-2023,” he told the news agency. french press (AFP) Achmad Fachri Radjab, director of the climate change information center of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG, in Indonesian).
Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan, deputy director of climatology at the BMKG, also confirmed the agency’s conclusions to AFP.
In recent weeks, extreme heat has hit Asia, from India to the Philippines, causing heatstroke, deaths and school closures.
Indonesia recorded an average air temperature of 27.7 degrees Celsius in April, the highest for that month since 1981, exceeding the previous highest average April temperature recorded in 2016 by 0.1 degrees, according to BMKG data.
“As for the causes, Many factors, not only climatic but also environmental, must have influenced the average temperaturesRadjab added.
More than a hundred temperature records were broken in Vietnam in April, and heat records were also broken in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Source: Observadora
