Over 40 degrees in March in China: March 25 in China in Badu Historical thermometers were recorded 40.8 degrees Celsius. This is a record temperature. On Tuesday, as many as 209 weather stations broke their records. It can be expected that more on Wednesday will fall. Wave ups touches a large part of Asia, March record temperature He also fell in the capital of South Korea, Pyongyang.
Record heat in Shanghai: In Shanghai the temperature exceeded 30 degrees at the earliest from 1933 year. Usually, thermometers show such readings only at the end of April or early May. This is only the third time when in March Shanghai thermometers showed over 30 degrees. On Tuesday, 31.1 degrees Celsius were recorded there, which is the second largest daily reading in the history of measurements in the city. In the following days, however, a sharp temperature drop by 12-17 degrees Celsius, to a level of about 8 degrees.
That's why it is so hot in Asia in March: Unusually high temperature readings in Asia have been observed since the beginning of March. Shi Jiaawen, an climate expert, explains that this rapid increase in temperature is the result of the impact between the cold front guided to the south (and this in turn the effect of La Nina anomalies in the central and eastern Pacific near the equator), and warm currents heading north, which fuel It gives global warming. These Two opposite forces collided On the Delta of the Yangti River, causing rapid temperature fluctuations.
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Sources: Global Times, English.news.cn, Maxim Herrera 1 and 2, @yangyubin1998, CNN