Shanghai recorded the warmest May day in 100 years.
Shanghai, China:
Shanghai recorded its warmest May day in 100 years on Monday, the city’s meteorological service announced, breaking the previous high by a full degree.
“At 1:09 PM, the temperature at Xujiahui station reached 36.1 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit), breaking a 100-year-old record for the highest temperature in May,” said a post on the official Weibo account of the service.
Scientists say global warming is exacerbating adverse weather, with a recent report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warning that “any increase in global warming will increase multiple and simultaneous threats.”
Later in the afternoon, the temperature at the subway station in central Shanghai rose even further to 36.7 degrees Celsius, the eastern Chinese city’s meteorological department said.
That put it a full degree above the old record, 35.7 degrees Celsius, recorded four times before — in 1876, 1903, 1915 and 2018, according to the weather service.
In May, the United Nations warned that 2023-2027 is almost certain to be the warmest five-year period on record as the combination of greenhouse gases and El Nino pushes temperatures higher.
According to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is a two-thirds chance that in at least one of the next five years, global temperatures will exceed the more ambitious target set by the Paris agreements on limiting the climate change.
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