Despite a lingering heatwave that resulted in a nationwide classroom shutdown order last weekend, millions of students returned to their reopened schools across Bangladesh on Sunday ( Apr 28 ).
Over the past year, average optimum temperature in the investment Dhaka have been 4 to 5 degrees Celsius higher than the 30-year average for the same time, with some additional days of hot weather forecast.
According to intensive scientific research, climate change is making heat waves more, more frequent, and more intense.
Lessons in Bangladesh resumed with concerned friends accompanying their children to the school gates for the start of the Muslim work week on Sunday through Thursday.
” I went to the school with my 13- season- older child. She was pleased that her institution was empty. But Blessed Begum, whose daughter attends a state-run school in Dhaka, gushed.
” The temperature is too much”, she told AFP. ” She presently got temperature sores from sweating. I hope she does n’t become ill.”
According to a statement released this week, around 32 million individuals were kept at home as a result of the university shutdown.
Preschools would be closed, according to a mandate from education authorities, while key school hours may be shortened.
The heat had last at least for the next three days, according to Bangladesh’s conditions bureau on Sunday.
Forecaster Kazi Jebunnesa predicted that after Thursday, there would probably be some comfort from the weather.
Muhammad Abul Kalam Mallik, a meteorologist for the weather bureau, told AFP that Bangladesh had never experienced such a heat wave since data began in 1948.
According to him,” It is a history as far as the length and the coverage area in the country are concerned,” adding that about three-quarters of the nation’s temperature was being affected by the searing conditions.
Mallik claimed that man-made reasons, including rapid urbanization, woodland clearing, shrinking water systems, and increased air conditioning use, contributed to climate change.
” The problem is, we will see more like extreme heatwaves in the future”, he said.