This image released by NASA’s Earth Observatory Team from data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), an instrument on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, shows the land surface temperature as observed by MODIS in Asia between April 15 to April 23, 2016. Yellow shows the warmest temperatures. April in Thailand is typically hot and sweaty but his year’s scorching weather has set a record for the longest heat wave in at least 65 years. (Reto Stockli/NASA Earth Observatory Team/MODIS Land Science Team via AP)
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Southeast Asia has been roasting in an extended heat wave through much of April with temperatures reaching unprecedented levels, allowing at least three countries to set new all-time national heat records and several others to come very close.
In Thailand, the heat wave is considered the worst since reliable records have been kept in that…
