Shanghai, China’s largest city, recorded its warmest May day in more than 150 years on Monday. At noon, the temperature in Xujiahui subway station was 36.1 degrees Celsius, AFP news agency reported, citing a post from the metropolitan weather service on the Weibo social network.
At 1:09 p.m., the temperature in the subway station reached 36.1 degrees Celsius, breaking “a record for the highest temperature in May in more than a century,” the city’s weather service announced. The Meteorological Observatory has issued a yellow temperature alert. However, according to the weather forecast, cooling is in sight, because it would rain in the coming days and temperatures will drop as a result.
According to the city’s weather service, the mercury column even indicated 36.7 degrees in the afternoon, exceeding the record temperature of 35.7 degrees measured in 1876, 1903, 1915 and 2018 by exactly one degree Celsius.
“Summers get hotter and hotter every year”
“I went to pick up a delivery in the afternoon and had a headache on the way home,” one city resident complained on Weibo. “I almost had heat stroke, it’s really hot enough to explode,” another named Wu told AFP. “I feel like the summers are getting hotter and hotter every year.” Earlier than before,” he adds.
According to a study published in mid-May by 22 international climatologists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, climate change has made heat waves in Germany at least 30 times more likely.
Source: Krone
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