SAO PAULO, Aug 24, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - Brazil is enduring a heat wave in the middle of the southern hemisphere's winter, with the metropolis of Sao Paulo close to breaking records for August and for the year 2023. But in the future the winters will probably get hotter," Fabio Luiz Teixeira, a professor at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo, told AFP. - "We're used to the heat" -"Today we have temperatures five degrees above average in some areas or cities in Brazil," said Cleber Souza, an Inmet meteorologist. In the streets of Sao Paulo, people dressed as though for a typical summer day. Countries of the Southern Cone have registered heat records in the middle of the southern winter.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha August 24, 2023 04:03 UTC