Beijing on Saturday maintained its hot weather alert at “red”, the most severe in China’s color-coded warning system, with the Chinese capital expected to cross the 40 degrees Celsius threshold for a third straight day. | Reuters
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
BEIJING — Beijing on Saturday maintained its hot weather alert at “red”, the most severe in China’s color-coded warning system, with the Chinese capital expected to cross the 40 degrees Celsius threshold for a third straight day. 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.In China’s four-tier weather warning system, the color red indicates the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue. A red alert signifies the temperature could exceed 40C within 24 hours.
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.
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