The city’s meteorological department reported that Shanghai had its hottest May day in 100 years, smashing the previous record by one full degree.
According to scientists, global warming is worsening unfavorable weather, which is why many nations have recently experienced catastrophic heatwaves and temperatures in Southeast and South Asia have broken records.
According to a post on the service’s official Weibo account, the temperature at Xujiahui station, a metro station in the heart of China’s largest metropolis, reached 36.1 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit), breaking a record that had stood for 100 years for the highest temperature in May. Later in the afternoon, according to Shanghai’s meteorological department, the temperature at the busy station increased even further, reaching 36.7C (98F).
As a result, it broke the previous record of 35.7C, which had been established four times previously in 1876, 1903, 1915, and 2018. It was one full degree warmer as a result. This was noted by the weather service. Residents of Shanghai wilted in the early afternoon sun, with some applications estimating a “feels like” temperature of more over 40C (104F). One Weibo post from Shanghai stated, “I left around midday to pick up a delivery, and after returning, I had a headache.” It’s so hot that it could explode, another person added. I almost suffered from heatstroke. Mid-April temperatures in parts of India reached 44C (111F), and at least 11 deaths close to Mumbai on a single day were due to heat stroke. Dhaka, Bangladesh, experienced its hottest day in over 60 years.
According to a research by the World Weather Attribution organization, Sainyabuli province in Laos set an all-time national temperature record with a temperature of 42.9C (109F), while Tak, Thailand, had its highest-ever temperature of 45.4C (114F).The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently issued a study that stated, “Every increment of global warming will aggravate multiple and concurrent threats. “The United Nations warned in May that it is almost certain that the five-year period from 2023 to 2027 will be the warmest on record owing to a combination of greenhouse gases and El Nino driving up temperatures.
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that there is a two-thirds possibility that at least one of the upcoming five years will see global temperatures exceed the more aggressive objective outlined in the Paris Agreements on controlling climate change.
In 2015, nations came to an agreement in Paris to limit global warming to “far below” two degrees Celsius over normal levels observed between 1850 and 1900, and to 1.5C if feasible. 2022 saw a 1.15C increase in the average worldwide temperature over the period of 1850 to 1900. According to the WMO, the likelihood that annual global surface temperatures will be more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for at least one of the years between 2023 and 2027 is 66 percent.
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