Pakistan's Meteorological Department has confirmed that the city of Dadu (a district in Sindh, Pakistan's southeastern province) set a new national temperature record of 51.5°C this week, surpassing normal levels by 4.5°C, with nearby cities Larkana and Jacobabad also reaching 50.5°C. The extreme heat is part of a broader, sustained heatwave across the Indian subcontinent driven by persistent high-pressure weather systems that suppress cloud formation and trap hot air near the surface, compounded by worsening drought conditions and elevated humidity that make it harder for the human body to cool itself. Climate scientists warn the situation will worsen, with World Weather Attribution estimating that climate change has already made such heatwaves roughly three times more likely, while the UN projects a 75% chance that global temperatures will exceed the critical 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels within the next five years.