Brazil: Health warnings as country gripped by 'unbearable' heatwave
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More than a hundred million people are thought to have been affected by the extreme weather.
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Original Title: Brazil: Health warnings as country gripped by ‘unbearable’ heatwave. Rio de Janeiro recorded 42.5C on Sunday - an all-time record for November - and high humidity on Tuesday meant that it felt like 58.5C.

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    10 months ago

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    Records have been broken in areas including the city Rio de Janeiro - where temperatures felt as high as 52.5C.

    The city of Sao Paulo saw average temperatures of 37.3C on Tuesday afternoon, the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) reported.

    “I’m exhausted, it’s hard,” Riquelme da Silva, 22, told AFP news agency on the streets there.

    The heatwave, which comes more than a month before the beginning of summer in the southern hemisphere, has seen Brazil’s energy consumption soar to record levels as people try to keep themselves cool.

    According to scientists, heatwaves are becoming longer and more intense in many places and this is expected to continue whilst humans keep releasing planet-warming greenhouse gases.

    Meanwhile, the Earth is currently in an El Niño weather phase, during which time global temperatures typically increase.

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