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Despite the approaching monsoon season, many residents in Myanmar\u2019s largest city are still feeling the heat and lack access to cooling systems due to power shortages caused by a limited supply and damage to the power grid from earthquakes.<\/p>\n

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Science teacher Phyo Htet sits in her room teaching online classes, dripping sweat despite the monsoon season approaching.<\/p>\n

The oppressive heat just won\u2019t go away due to the high humidity of Yangon\u2019s rainy season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it\u2019s very hot and there is no electricity, we can\u2019t sleep at all at night,\u201d she said from her tiny apartment with no air-conditioning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Another educator, Zora, has learned to live by the power supply schedule since January. When the electricity comes on from 1 am to 5 am, she stays awake until 3:30 am, charging power banks and filling water tanks.<\/p>\n

Her sleep routine has become abnormal. Some nights she goes to sleep at 9 pm and gets up after midnight to start her energy-storing routine.<\/p>\n

Without stable power, Nora, a professor teaching online at a foreign university, must rely on a hand fan as the only way to cool down, whether at night or during online classes.<\/p>\n

These are some of the daily experiences of those living in the dense residential areas of Yangon \u2013 sweating with sticky skin and a feeling of great discomfort, despite the rains coming.<\/p>\n

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