Myanmar records hottest ever April temperature of 48.2C

YANGON — Myanmar recorded its hottest ever April temperature of 48.2 degrees Celsius (118.76 Fahrenheit), authorities said Monday, as the Southeast Asian nation bakes in a heatwave. The mercury hit 48.2C in the town of Chauk in central Myanmar’s Magway region on Sunday, according to a statement from the country’s weather office, the highest temperature seen anywhere in Myanmar in April since records began 56 years ago. The same day temperatures hit 40C in commercial hub Yangon and 44C in the second city of Mandalay, the weather office said. READ: Heatstroke kills 30 in Thailand this year as kingdom bakes […]…

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