Temperature hits 36.7C in China’s largest city as records fall across Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Shanghai has recorded its hottest day in May in 100 years at 36.7C (98F), shattering the previous high by a full degree.
Scientists say global warming is exacerbating adverse weather with many countries experiencing deadly heatwaves and temperatures hitting records across Southeast and South Asia in recent weeks.
“At 13:09, the temperature at Xujiahui station hit 36.1C (97F), breaking a 100-year-old record for the highest temperature in May,” a post on the city’s meteorological service’s official Weibo account read on Monday, referring to a metro station in the centre of China’s largest city.
The temperature at the bustling station climbed to 36.7C later in the afternoon, Shanghai’s meteorological service said.
That put it well above the old record of 35.7C (96F), which…
