Shanghai Records Its Hottest Day In May In 100 Years, According To The Weather Service

Shanghai recorded its hottest May day in 100 years on Monday, the city’s weather service announced, smashing the previous high by a full degree.

“At 1:09 p.m., the temperature at Xujiahui Station reached 36.1 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit), breaking a 100-year record for the highest temperature in May,” read a post on the official account from the service’s Weibo.

Scientists say global warming is like that aggravation of adverse weatherwith a recent report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warning that “every increase in global warming will intensify multiple and concurrent hazards.”

Later in the afternoon, the temperature at a metro station in central Shanghai rose further to 36.7 degrees Celsius, the weather service in the eastern Chinese city said.

That put it one degree above the old record of 35.7 degrees Celsius, which has been set four times before: in 1876, 1903, 1915 and 2018, according to the weather service.

In May, the United Nations warned that 2023 to 2027 is almost certain to be the warmest five-year period on record, as greenhouse gases and The kid they combine to raise temperatures.

There’s at least a two-thirds chance one of the next five years will see global temperatures surpass the most ambitious target set in the Paris accords to limit climate change, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization said.