Beijing breaches 40 degrees Celsius for first time in 9 years
A weather station in the southern suburbs of Beijing recorded 40.7C at 2:30 p.m. , according to the municipal weather bureau, marking the first breach of the 40C threshold since May 29, 2014.
Early on Thursday the city of nearly 22 million people raised an orange alert, the second-highest weather warning, saying that temperatures could rise as high as 39C in most parts of the city from Thursday to Saturday. Last week, the national weather bureau issued an alert for heat stroke, almost a fortnight earlier than in previous years, as new record temperatures for the month of June assailed cities across northern China.
The latest round of heatwaves, coinciding with the Dragon Boat Festival long weekend in China, will also hit the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang in the far west, according to the China Meteorological Administration.
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