Shanghai on Monday recorded the highest temperature reached in May in a hundred years, the meteorological department of the city, located in eastern China, announced Monday.
“At 13:09 (06:09 in Lisbon), the temperature at Xujiahui station reached 36.1 degrees, breaking a 100-year record for the highest temperature in May,” the official meteorological service said.
A few hours later, the weather station in downtown Shanghai reached 36.7°C, according to the same source.
The temperature thus beat the previous record by one degree, which had been recorded four times, in 1876, 1903, 1915 and 2018.
In mid-May, the UN warned that the period 2023-2027 will almost certainly be the hottest ever recorded on Earth, influenced by greenhouse gases and the El Niño climate phenomenon.
Global temperatures are expected to soon exceed the more ambitious target of the Paris climate agreements, the World Meteorological Organization warned.
Source: DN
