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Mercury climbs to 40 degrees
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TEMPERATURES hit 40 degrees Celsius yesterday, as Shanghai has finally begun to see scorching weather after an unusually cool July.
The Shanghai Meteorological Bureau issued a yellow heat alert — the lowest of a three-level system and forecasting a high of 35 degrees — at 9am yesterday.
It upgraded this to orange shortly after noon in anticipation of temperatures reaching 37 degrees.
By 2pm, most districts in the city had recorded temperatures ranging from 35 to 37 degrees, with 40.1 degrees recorded in the Pudong New Area.
Benchmark Xujiahui weather station recorded a high of 37.6 degrees — the highest there this year.
The sizzling temperatures proved tough going for some residents. “I felt that I’m walking inside a stove,” said a pedestrian braving the heat in downtown Nanjing Rd.
Sizzling temperatures over the past couple of days follow unseasonably cool weather for much of July.
This year’s first high-temperature day — when the mercury hits 35 degrees — fell on Sunday, the latest since 2000.
“Although this year’s first high-temperature day came much later than some previous years — often they’re between late June and mid July, the subtropical high front causing it has made the temperature rise quickly,” said Zhu Jiehua, a chief service officer at the bureau.
The soaring temperatures have also led to a sharp increase in power consumption for air conditioning.
By 2:30pm, the city’s power usage had reached a summer peak of 26,490 megawatts.
The power authorities expect that power usage will remain high the coming days, as the heatwave is set to continue into this weekend and air conditioning will be cranked up.
Temperatures will exceed 35 degrees every day for the rest of this week, according to the weather bureau.
While a few afternoon thundershowers are forecast for today, for much of this week it will be all dry, bright and sunny. The low temperature will fall no lower than 28 degrees this week, said forecasters.
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