China issues yellow alert for high temperatures

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-06-22 15:40
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Participants brave the heat to take part in a dragon boat race in Beijing, June 22, 2023. The 15th Beijing Dragon Boat Festival kicked off at the International Horticultural Exhibition Park in Yanqing district in Beijing Thursday. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]

The temperature in Beijing soared above 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday for the first time since 2014 as the Chinese capital warned of blistering hot weather through the weekend.

A weather station on the southern outskirts of Beijing recorded 40.1C (104 Fahrenheit) at 1:25 pm local time (0525 GMT), according to the municipal weather bureau, marking the first breach of the 40C threshold since May 29, 2014.

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