Summer heat waves are already deadly in Asia, and it’s still spring

New Delhi - It's still spring, but hundreds of millions of people in South and Southeast Asia have already had to deal with scorching heat. The summer heat has arrived early, setting records and even costing lives, and is expected to get much worse in May and June when summer actually begins.

By early May, severe heat waves were already responsible for nearly three dozen deaths in the vast region. Schools have been forced to close weeks before the summer holidays and vast amounts of new crops have withered on parched farmland.

Where the most dangerous heat is expected in ...