"I've lived in Beijing for three decades, but I've never experienced a summer as hot as this one," complained a 53-year-old Beijing resident surnamed Su.
AzVision.az reports citing the Global Times China, his complaint was supported by China's National Climate Center (NCC), which announced on Sunday that the country has recorded the highest number of hot days in the past six decades, and that the occurrence of multiple heat waves engulfing the country's northern cities is extremely rare.
According to a notice by the NCC, China has recorded an average of 4.1 days this year where the temperature exceeded 35 C, the highest number since records began in 1961. Within the northern region, capital Beijing has been the most severely affected, followed by the neighboring Hebei Province and Tianjin Municipality.
From June 21 to Friday, 22 weather observatory points in North China recorded historically high temperatures, and a total of 450,000 square kilometers of land experienced temperatures exceeding 37 C in recent days. Beijing recorded consecutive days of temperatures over 40 C in June, said the NCC.
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