Pedestrians carrying umbrellas cross Westminster Bridge, in London, Britain, on April 28, 2024. (Photo by Maja Smiejkowska/Reuters)





A man carries a child under an umbrella as it rains in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





A person stands under an umbrella during a rain showers amongst cherry blossoms in Greenwich Park in London on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





Participants attend the annual May Day bank holiday Jack In The Green parade and festival in Hastings, Britain, on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





A pedestrian holds an umbrella to protect from the sun in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 3, 2024. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A young boy goes for a walk on a rainy day in Dubai on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Chris Whiteoak/The National)





A man walks along the main pedestrian street in the northern municipality of Mitrovica, on April 21, 2024. Four towns in the Serb-majority region of North Kosovo are holding an extraordinary local election on April 21 on whether to oust their ethnic Albanian mayors in a territory riddled with deadly tensions. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Spectators watch a lantern parade during the Lotus Lantern Festival, ahead of the birthday of Buddha at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 11, 2024. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Residents observe a flooded street at the city center of Sao Sebastiao do Cai, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil on May 2, 2024. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday visited the country's south where floods and mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed 29 people, with the toll expected to rise. (Photo by Anselmo Cunha/AFP Photo)





Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia observe a minute of silence during a wreath laying ceremony at the National Monument opposite the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (Photo by Peter Dejong/AP Photo)





Eden Cooper in the last decade of April 2024 examines some of the 50 varieties of azalea that have begun to bloom in the Japanese-themed riverside landscape in Exbury Gardens in the New Forest. (Photo by Russell Sach/The Times)





A tourist dressed in Thai traditional rented costumes uses an umbrella to protect herself from sunlight amid hot weather at the Temple of Dawn, or Wat Arun, in Bangkok, Thailand, 06 May 2024. Thailand is facing a severe heatwave as the Thai Meteorological Department warned about the extremely hot weather with temperatures soaring to record highs over 44 degrees Celsius in some areas and advised the public to avoid prolonged outdoor activities from a highly dangerous heat level index that directly hazardously affects health conditions. A total of 38 people have been reported dead of heatstroke in Thailand from February to May 2024, according to Dr Atthapol Kaewsamrit, Deputy Director-General of the Health Department. The United Nations revealed in its recent report that Asia was identified as the global disaster center and anticipated to be significantly affected by climate related disruptions such as extreme temperatures, severe heatwave, floods, storms and melting glaciers. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





People cross the Millennium Bridge in London, with St Paul's Cathedral behind, in the rain on a wet early May Bank Holiday Monday, on May 6, 2024. The Met Office forecast is for rain in the capital for most of the day. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Alamy Live News)





A man is seen past a derelict building in the Chinatown district of Honiara, the Solomon Islands capital, on April 16, 2024. Merchants in Solomon Islands' gritty Chinatown were on April 16 preparing for the prospect of post-election violence, fearful the district will again be targeted if the Pacific nation reelects a pro-Beijing leader. Unruly mobs tore through the shopping district during riots in 2019 and 2021, their anger fuelled in part by China's growing sway over the government. (Photo by Saeed Khan/AFP Photo)





A man has his umbrella blown inside out as he braves the rain in Leeds, United Kingdom on April 28, 2024. (Photo by Ioannis Alexopoulos/London News Pictures)