Weather agency says China experienced hottest year on record in 2024

In the past 4 years, China has logged its 4 warmest years since comparable somesthesia recordings began successful 1961.

China experienced its warmest year connected grounds successful 2024, a caller precocious since comparable somesthesia recordings began much than 60 years ago, the country’s meteorological work has said.

The mean nationalist somesthesia for 2024 was 10.92 degrees Celsius (51.66 degrees Fahrenheit), 1.03 degrees higher than 2023 and “the warmest twelvemonth since the commencement of afloat records successful 1961”, the China Meteorological Administration said connected its quality tract connected Wednesday night.

“The apical 4 warmest years ever were the past 4 years, with each apical 10 warmest years since 1961 occurring successful the 21st century,” the medication said.

Densely populated Shanghai, China’s fiscal hub, recorded its warmest twelvemonth successful 2024 since meteorological records for the metropolis began successful 1873, information from the Shanghai meteorological bureau showed. The city’s mean somesthesia stood astatine 18.8C (65.8F).

People effort to support themselves from the prima arsenic they locomotion on the Bund connected a blistery day, successful Shanghai, China, successful 2023 [File: Aly Song/Reuters]

China had already logged its hottest period successful the past of observations successful July past year, arsenic good arsenic the hottest August and the warmest autumn recorded.

Residents successful the confederate metropolis of Guangzhou besides experienced a record-breaking agelong summer, with authorities media reporting determination were 240 days wherever the mean somesthesia was supra 22C (71.6F), breaking the grounds of 234 days acceptable successful 1994.

The warmer upwind successful China has been accompanied by stronger storms and higher rainfall, and dozens of radical were killed past twelvemonth and thousands forced to evacuate from their homes during floods astir the country.

In May, a road successful confederate China collapsed aft days of rain, sidesplitting 48 people, portion Sichuan, Chongqing, and the mediate reaches of the Yangtze River suffered from vigor and drought successful aboriginal autumn.

Greenpeace warned past twelvemonth of China’s “alarming caller trends successful utmost heat” and said that days with utmost vigor were arriving earlier each twelvemonth and the size of areas affected successful China by specified vigor was growing.

“As a multitude of clime impacts deed China, people’s lives and livelihoods are impacted,” the run radical said.

The United Nations said successful a year-end connection connected Monday that 2024 was acceptable to beryllium the warmest twelvemonth ever recorded worldwide.

Global warming, driven mostly by the burning of fossil fuels, is not conscionable astir rising temperatures but the knock-on effect of each the other vigor successful the ambiance and seas. Warmer aerial tin clasp much h2o vapour, and warmer oceans mean greater evaporation, resulting successful much aggravated downpours and storms.

Zurich-based security elephantine Swiss Re said climate-related earthy disasters caused an estimated $310bn successful economical losses successful 2024.

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