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2022: A woman drinks a plum and tamarind drink to cool off during a heatwave, in Jacobabad. [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]
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2022: A woman drinks a plum and tamarind drink to cool off during a heatwave, in Jacobabad. [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]
In hottest city on Earth, mothers bear brunt of climate change
2022: Sonari collects muskmelons at a farm on the outskirts of Jacobabad. 'When the heat is coming and we're pregnant, we feel stressed,' said Sonari, who is in her mid-20s. [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]
2022: Women and children wash after a day of work at a muskmelon farm in Jacobabad. [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]
2022, Jacobabad, Pakistan: A flood-affected family sits inside a makeshift tent next to a railway track after heavy monsoon rains in Jacobabad. Heavy rain has pounded large areas of Pakistan and the government has declared an emergency to deal with monsoon flooding it said had affected more than 30 million people.
Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty
When Is Hot Too Hot?
With the United Kingdom just having experienced its hottest summer on record with a mean temperature of 16.10°C, 1.51°C above average, according to the Met Office, the obvious question is what is the hottest temperature people can endure. For once, the answer is pretty straightforward, at least according to some research published in 2020 in Science Advances, a wet-bulb temperature of 35 degrees…
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JACOBABAD: Not long ago, Sara Khan, principal at a school for disadvantaged girls in Jacobabad, looked on in alarm as some students passed o
Not long ago, Sara Khan, principal at a school for disadvantaged girls in Jacobabad, looked on in alarm as some students passed out from the heat — the city was the world’s hottest at one point in May.
Now, after heavy monsoon rains submerged large parts of the country, her classrooms are flooded and many of the 200 students homeless, struggling to get enough food and caring for injured relatives.
Such extreme weather events in a short space of time have caused havoc across the country, killing hundreds of people, cutting off communities, wrecking homes and infrastructure and raising concerns over health and food security.
Jacobabad has not been spared. In May, temperatures topped 50 Celsius, drying up canal beds and causing some residents to collapse from heatstroke. Today, parts of the city are underwater, though flooding has receded from its peak.
In Khan’s neighbourhood in the east of the city, houses have been badly damaged. On Thursday, she said she heard cries from a neighbour’s house when the roof collapsed from water damage, killing their nine-year-old son.
Many of her students are unlikely to return to school for months, having already lost class time during the brutal summer heatwave.
“Jacobabad is the hottest city in the world, there are so many challenges … before people had heatstroke, now people have lost their homes, almost everything (in the flood), they have become homeless,” she told Reuters.
19 people in the city of around 200,000 are confirmed to have died in the flooding, including children, according to the city’s deputy commissioner, while local hospitals reported many more were sick or injured.
More than 40,000 people are living in temporary shelters, mostly in crowded schools with limited access to food.
One of the displaced, 40-year-old Dur Bibi, sat under a tent on the grounds of a school and recalled the moment she fled when water gushed into her home overnight late last week.
“I grabbed my children and rushed out of the house with bare feet,” she said, adding that the only thing they had time to take with them was a copy of the Koran.
Four days later, she has not been able to obtain medicine for her daughter who is suffering from a fever.
“I have nothing, besides these kids. All of the belongings in my home have been swept away,” she said.
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