China’s cities feel the heat as summer enters its height
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SCORCHING heat has gripped several parts of China as the country enters the height of summer.
The meteorological bureau in Beijing said that temperatures in the city reached their highest of the year yesterday.
As of 2pm, temperatures in most of the capital had risen to between 37 and 39 degrees Celsius, and some areas downtown saw them exceed 42 degrees.
The city has been suffering from a heat wave since Saturday, with temperatures soaring to more than 35 degrees for three consecutive days.
The weather bureau said that temperatures were expected to drop to around 36 degrees today due to temporary thunderstorms and increased cloud cover. The heat wave is expected to end tomorrow with temperatures dropping to 30 degrees.
The weather bureau in neighboring Tianjin said temperatures in the city reached 39 degrees yesterday and the heat was expected to continue throughout today.
The city’s streets had fewer pedestrians and cars than usual, and some construction sites stopped work because of the excessive temperatures.
At a construction site in the city’s Nankai District, a worker surnamed Zhu said: “It has been too hot these days.”
“It is especially unbearable after lunch, when the skin burns under the sun,” he said. “I have been sweating all over, even when I’ve not been working.”
In east China’s Jiangxi Province, temperatures in several cities, including Nanchang, Yichun and Xinyu, rose to more than 37 degrees yesterday.
The provincial meteorological center said temperatures were expected to cool tomorrow, when rain was expected to fall on parts of the province.
Some manufacturing companies in Shenyang, the capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, have arranged paid leave for employees due to hot weather.
Temperatures in the city reached 31 degrees yesterday and weather authorities said that they were expected to linger above 30 degrees Celsius over the next five days.
On Sunday, the National Meteorological Center issued an alert for high temperatures, forecasting that a heat wave was to hit central, eastern and northern China yesterday and estimating that temperatures in several regions would rise to around the 40 degree mark.
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