The latest round of heatwaves coincide with the Dragon Boat Festival long weekend in China. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - The temperature in Beijing soared above 40 deg C on Thursday for the first time since 2014 as the Chinese capital warned of blistering hot weather through the weekend with the return ofA weather station on the southern outskirts of Beijing recorded 40.7 deg C at 2.30pm, according to the municipal weather bureau, marking the first breach of the 40 deg C 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 39 deg C in most parts of the city from Thursday to Saturday. Last week, the national weather bureau issued an alert for heatstroke, 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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