The record heat is expected to persist for at least another five days. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - A remote township in China’s arid north-west endured temperatures of more than 52 deg C on Sunday, reported state media, setting a record for a country that was battling minus 50 deg C weather just six months ago.
Since April, countries across Asia have been hit by several rounds of record-breaking heat, stoking concerns about their ability to adapt to a rapidly changing climate. The target ofProlonged bouts of high temperatures in China have challenged power grids and crops, and concerns are mounting of a possible repeat of 2022’s drought, the most severe in 60 years.
On Jan 22, temperatures in Mohe, a city in north-eastern Heilongjiang province, plunged to minus 53 deg C, according to the local weather bureau, smashing China’s previous all-time low of minus 52.3 deg C set in 1969.
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