Beijing on Saturday maintained its hot weather alert at 'red', the most severe in China's colour-coded warning system, with the Chinese capital expected to cross the 40 degrees Celsius (104F) threshold for a third straight day.
A woman walks with cold patches on her forehead and neck amid a red alert for heatwave in Beijing, China June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
Nearby provinces including Hebei and Shandong also kept their "red" alerts on Saturday as vast tracts of northern and eastern China sizzled in record temperatures. The latest heat waves, the second round in about 10 days, were caused by warm air masses associated with high pressure ridges in the atmosphere, the heating effect of which was amplified by thin cloud cover and long daylight hours around the summer solstice, according to Chinese meteorologists.
Until this week, the city of nearly 22 million people had never logged two consecutive days above 40C since setting up its main observatory in the southern suburbs in 1951.On Friday, education authorities in Beijing said schools would be allowed to reduce or even suspend classes if the weather becomes very hot.
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