Temperatures above 40°C trigger a red alert in the city and check records as heatwave ravages parts of Europe
China’s most populous city, Shanghai, issued its highest extreme heat alert for the third time this summer, as stifling temperatures broke records this week.
The 25 million grocery-buying countries and the mall on Thursday declared a red alert, warning of expected temperatures of at least 40 °C (104 °F) in the next 24 hours. Temperatures rose to 40. 6 in the afternoon but fell below Wednesday’s 40. 9 C, a 2017 record.
Extreme heat situations have also occurred in parts of Europe. Firefighters have fought forest fires in Spain, Portugal, France and Croatia.
At five o’clock in the afternoon local time, the Shanghai Red Alert is in effect. The highest of a three-level color-coded caution system, it demands the relief or halting of the structure and other external work.
Shanghai has issued 3 red alerts in the last five days, this is a relatively rare event, with only 17 issued since record-keeping began in 1873.
The warm weather coincided with mass covid-19 testing in several districts amid minor outbreaks, adding to heat disruptions for citizens and sports staff dressed in protective suits.
Some Covid-19 inspectors put bottles of frozen mineral water in their dangerous white suits while working, while others sat next to huge blocks of ice to cool off. “This dress is extraordinarily hot,” Peng Lei, who worked at a control site. , he told Reuters. ” Clothes are never dry. All day, it is rainy with sweat.
Some communities also started testing at night, when it cools down.
Last month’s heat wave affected part of China. The Yangtze River basin, which encompasses major cities from Shanghai to Chongqing in the heart of the country, has been roasting under heat waves for the past week.
By five o’clock in the afternoon, 86 red alerts had been issued in China, most of them in the Yangtze River basin.
Rising demand for air conditioning pushed China’s peak energy load to a record high on Tuesday. The government has said it is making every effort to make a certain source of energy the peak demand for the summer era.
In Europe, some countries are experiencing a momentary heat wave in as many months.
On Thursday, in southwestern France, some 1,000 firefighters were battling two wildfires that have already burned just about 4,000 hectares. “Since the beginning of the year, 15,000 hectares have been burned in the country, compared to just under 1,000 hectares on the same date last year. . . nine out of 10 fires have a human cause,” French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Late Wednesday.
Thousands of firefighters also battled more than 20 fires that ravaged Portugal and western Spain on Wednesday, threatening villages and disrupting tourists amid a heat wave that pushed temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees) in parts of the region.
In Croatia, the government has deployed aircraft, dozens of firefighters and infantrymen in an effort to involve 3 primary forest fires along the country’s Adriatic coast. The World Meteorological Organization warned Tuesday that a heat wave is spreading and intensifying in giant portions of Europe. Induced weather replaces triggering droughts, the number of excessive wildfires is expected to increase by up to 30% over the next 28 years, according to a February 2022 UN report.