More than a dozen major Chinese cities have seen temperatures hit record seasonal highs this week, with central China's Wuhan and Zhengzhou at more than 10 degrees Celsius higher than normal for early March, official data showed. Wuhan, located on the middle reaches of the Yangtze river, registered temperatures of 26 Celsius on Monday (March 6), 12 degrees higher than...
A woman wearing face mask uses a fan as she walks on a street on a hot day in Shanghai, on July 19, 2022.More than a dozen major Chinese cities have seen temperatures hit record seasonal highs this week, with central China's Wuhan and Zhengzhou at more than 10 degrees Celsius higher than normal for early March, official data showed.
China experienced months of extreme heat last year, with 267 weather stations measuring record-breaking temperatures in excess of 40 degrees during a 70-day summer drought that hit the entire Yangtze river basin, triggering fires and damaging crops. The southwestern province of Yunnan, a major hydropower base, is already in the middle of a prolonged drought forecast to last into April, with average rainfall more than 60 per cent lower than usual since November last year.
Chinese weather officials said at a routine monthly press briefing last week that average temperatures for the whole of February were 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than normal, with average rainfall also 3.9 per cent lower than the average.
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