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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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Scientists say global warming is like that aggravation of adverse weather<\/span>with 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.”<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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<\/span> they combine to raise temperatures.<\/p>\n There’s at least a two-thirds chance one of the next five years<\/span> 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.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading CBS NEWS. <\/p>\n Create your free account or login Trending news<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
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