The temperature in Beijing breached 106 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday and shattered the record for the hottest day in June in the Chinese capital.
The 106 F logged on Thursday was the city’s second-highest in history. The warmest temperature recorded by the city of nearly 22 million people was 107 F on July 24, 1999.
In Tianjin, a port city with a population of over 13 million, increased demand for air-conditioning pushed its power grid load to 14.54 million kilowatts on June 15, up 23% from a year earlier, and spurred its utility department to dispatch workers to patrol underground tunnels every day to ensure electrical cables are in working order.He Jiaxi, 23, who was visiting Beijing, said she was worried about electricity cuts after experiencing outages in nearby Hebei province in June last year.
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