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This seems all par for the course. Before the onset of the summer, heat waves had already slammed disparate stretches of the planet, from Bangkok to Barranquilla. “By the end of May, more than 1.5 billion people — almost one-fifth of the planet’s population — endured at least one day where the heat index topped 103 degrees Fahrenheit, or 39.4 degrees Celsius,May also marked the 12th consecutive month during which average global temperatures surpassed all observations since 1850.
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