{"id":54459,"date":"2023-04-19T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T07:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/weather\/2023\/apr\/19\/severe-heatwave-asia-deaths-schools-close-india-china"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T07:42:40","slug":"severe-heatwave-engulfs-asia-causing-deaths-and-forcing-schools-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54459","title":{"rendered":"Severe heatwave engulfs Asia causing deaths and forcing schools to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme temperatures described as \u2018worst April heatwave in Asian history\u2019 as records tested in India, China, Thailand and Laos<\/p>\n<p>A severe heatwave has swept across much of Asia, causing deaths and school closures in India and record-breaking temperatures in China.<\/p>\n<p>Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/extremetemps\/status\/1646875957570174978?s=46&amp;t=vfvyHUyuWIIuWGr3e9sa-g\">described the unusually high temperatures<\/a> as the \u201cworst April heatwave in Asian history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/weather\/2023\/apr\/19\/severe-heatwave-asia-deaths-schools-close-india-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme temperatures described as \u2018worst April heatwave in Asian history\u2019 as records tested in India, China, Thailand and LaosA severe heatwave has swept across much of Asia, causing deaths and school closures in India and record-breaking temperatures &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2331,455,62,727,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-extreme-weather","category-india","category-laos","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54468,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54459\/revisions\/54468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}