China registered a temperature of 52.2 degrees on Sunday in the Xinjiang region in the west of the country, a record for mid-July, the country’s meteorological service revealed on Monday. This part of the country, a vast partly desert territory that borders several Central Asian countries, is generally the hottest in China in summer.
A weather station in the city of Turfan, Xinjiang, “recorded a maximum temperature of 52.2 degrees at 7:00 p.m. on July 16, breaking the all-time record for heat for this period of the year.” The previous record, according to the same weather station, was in July 2017, when thermometers reached 50.6 degrees.
The city of Turfan is close to the Taklamakan desert. Summer heat waves are not uncommon in China but, according to scientists, the Asian country has faced extreme weather conditions in recent months, exacerbated by climate change.
Source: TSF
