People walk on a dried-up bed of a reservoir, amid hot temperatures, while many regions from southwest to east of the country along the Yangtze river in China have been experiencing weeks of record-breaking heatwave. - Reuters
BEIJING: China expects above-average temperatures to continue through September after the hottest August on record led to a historical drought and power cuts that damaged the world’s second-biggest economy.
August’s average temperature was 22.4 degrees Celsius, the highest since China’s complete climate record started in 1961, Xiao Chan, vice-director of the National Climate Centre, said at a press conference.
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