While a heatwave rages over part of the northern hemisphere, China has just broken a new temperature record. More than 50 ° C, or 52.2 ° C, were recorded on Sunday July 16 in Xinjiang, in the west of the country, according to the national meteorology. A record temperature for mid-July, when part of the country suffered a heat wave.
“On Sunday at 7:00 p.m. (1:00 p.m. Paris time), the maximum temperature recorded by the meteorological station in the village of Sanbao, […] which depends on the city of Turpan, was 52.2 ° C,” said Monday Chinese weather services.
“I’ve never seen such a temperature recorded by a regional weather station,” commented on his Weibo account (the Chinese equivalent of Twitter) a national meteorology analyst, Xin Xin. The oasis town of Turpan (also written Turfan) is located at the gates of the Taklamakan desert and more than 2,200 km from Beijing.
The ground temperature there reached locally 80 ° C on Sunday, according to the Chinese weather services. Midsummer heat waves are not unusual in China.
In January, a cold record was broken in China at Mohe, on the border with Russia (-53°C). Last year, China experienced its hottest August since records began in 1961, after weeks of an unprecedented heat wave.
