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From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere

Source: © 2024 Raquel Natalicchio / Houston Chronicle

In sweltering Brazil, worst-ever flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in the world's largest election in India are fainting in heat that hit as high as 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius).

A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people in Thailand and set records there and in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives and Myanmar. Record temperatures — especially at night when it just won't cool down — have hit many parts of Africa. Flooding devastated Houston, and the as a whole just had its second highest number of tornadoes for the month of April.

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