ALMATY: In March, a stunning heatwave hit Central Asia, shown in a new study published on Friday, which is already greatly affected by the effects of climate change in danger crops and water supply in rural areas.
The temperature over a month was up to 10 ° C (50 ° F) hotter in the region compared to pre-industrial average. World weather attentionA coalition of scientists that study the impact of climate change on extreme weather events, which conducted research.
Climate change accelerated the heatwave at around 4 ° C, although the figure was “possibly a lower.”
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“This is a heatwave that does not make headlines – it happened in spring and in an area that is not actually known to bark the heat,” said Maja Wahlberg, a technical advisor to the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center, who attended the study.
The research was conducted in five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Ben Clarke of Imperial College London said, “Our heatwave studies often detect changes of 2 to 4 ° C (35–39 ° F), so 10 ° C is quite clearly boners.”
“Hotter March temperature is affecting agricultural crops and affecting people’s health in Central Asia as well as affecting people’s health,” said the world-creating co-head Foreraik Otto.
Melting of thousands of glaciers is a major threat to the people of the landlock region, which is already suffering from water scarcity.
According to a report by the Eurasian Development Bank, two main mountain ranges have been melted in the last 60 years in the middle of Tian-Shan and Pamir in the middle of 14 to 30 percent of the glaciers.
Heatwave coincides with an important agricultural season, when almonds, apricots and cherries bloom and wheat are sown.
Half of all the workers in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are employed in agriculture, which is one-fifth of the economy of the region.
Especially in warm places, the temperature collides 30 ° C – extremely unusual for March.
Central Asia is usually characterized by extraordinary warm summer and hard, cold winter.
Climate scientists said that the initial heatwave in this area would probably continue, looking at it as a trend rather than a one-closed event.
“We must expect such incidents,” Clarke told AFP during an online briefing.
