World's Biggest City - Shanghai - Hits All-Time Highest Temp On Record - 105.6F

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On Friday, the 24-million-plus inhabitants of Shanghai witnessed the temperature skyrocket to 105.6 degrees (40.9 Celsius), its hottest day ever recorded. The Chinese city, which has more people than any in the world, has tracked temperatures since 1872.

Friday’s temperature extreme fits into a recent pattern of increasing hot weather.

“Shanghai is getting hotter — the previous record of 40.8 [Celsius] was set only in 2013, and eight of the 12 highest temperatures reached over the past century were recorded in the last five years, according to the city weather bureau,” the AFP reported.

The excessive heat spurred an increase in hospital visits because of heat-related illness, and the city was under a “red alert” — its first this year, and the 13th since China launched a heat alert system a decade ago.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/07/21/the-worlds-most-populated-city-shanghai-just-had-its-hottest-day-in-recorded-history/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.65c8017189a8

[ffr]

1. I wonder how hot it stays at night. That's the true indicator of greenhouse gasses.

Just like it was in Phoenix, where the night time lows were 90° during recent heat waves and have only recently lowered into the 80s. You'd think on a clear night, all that infrared red radiation would be able to escape into space.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. You've got 24 million hot bodies packed into countless concrete highrises

and concrete streets.....like baking on low in a stone oven.

Here at our place, we are surrounded by trees, dirt, set way back from the street. Temps the last couple of nights at midnight: 80 degrees, daytime in the same shaded place was 94 at 3pm.

i shudder to think of living in a place as crowded NYC much less Shanghai.

[Canoe52]

3. Used to live in the middle of a concrete city with no

air conditioning. Held in the heat all night. Would wake up every 1 1/2 hours in a complete sweat, the only way to get any sleep was to jump in a cold shower and back into bed without towling off.