Authorities advise parents to keep children indoors during extreme heatwave, expected to last two weeks
South Sudan is closing all schools from Monday in preparation for an extreme heatwave expected to last two weeks.
The health and education ministries have advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 45C (113F).
They warned that any school found open during the warning period would have its registration withdrawn, but the statement issued late on Saturday did not specify how long schools would remain closed.
At 25% humidity in Sudan, that temperature gets them into the wet bulb death zone:
https://earthsky.org/earth/wet-bulb-temperature-explained-dangers/
Smart thinking!
I remember back in the day in my state of Australia we would never shut down for weather and those little metal portables were fucking hell on those 40+ days. Cracking a window open does so little.
Wow, and it’s only March.
Albeit they are pretty close to the equator. Do their seasons matter or are heat waves more indicative of their weather?
Temperatures are consistently high all year, but there’s more rain in the summer. They’re probably escaping the worst possible combination of temperature and humidity, but that feels like pretty small comfort in the face of 45 C
As Deceptichum said, it’s getting dangerously close to the point where the wet bulb temperature exceeds 35°C, after which the temperature starts to become lethal to humans. We’re on route that large swaths of the earth become uninhabitable without AC
This is the best summary I could come up with:
South Sudan is closing all schools from Monday in preparation for an extreme heatwave expected to last two weeks.
The health and education ministries have advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 45C (113F).
He said schools should be connected to the electricity grid to enable the installation of air conditioners.
South Sudan, one of the world’s youngest nations, is particularly vulnerable to the climate crisis with heatwaves common but rarely exceeding 40C (104F).
Civil conflict has plagued the east African country, which also suffers drought and flooding, making living conditions difficult.
The World Food Programme in its latest country brief said South Sudan “continues to face a dire humanitarian crisis” due to violence, economic instability, climate change and an influx of people fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Sudan.
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