After sweating through the hottest July on record, Shanghai upgraded its daily high-temperature alert from orange to red, the highest on the country's three-tiered color-coded heat alert system, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, as the weather forecast showed a high of 40 degrees Celsius.
Tuesday also marked the fourth hot day in August for Shanghai, which saw a record-high temperature of 40.6 degrees Celsius on Friday.
The previous record was set in 1934, when a temperature of 40.2 degrees Celsius was recorded.
Shanghai's municipal government has requested that all companies and units ensure safe working conditions in the severe heat, especially for those working outdoors.
Meanwhile in Jiangsu, the demand for power for airconditioners has put a strain on the national grid. In July, residents sucked 50 billion kilowatts per hour trying to keep cool in the summer heat. In the south, The heatwave has left around 5.95 million people without drinking water, leaving land unfarmable and livestock, er, unlivable.
Conversely in the north of the country, rainfall has caused major flooding, with Gansu receiving double the amount rain that it usually gets at this time of year. Torrential rains hit Sichuan, leaving 31 people dead, and the northern provinces continue to be battered with heavy rain
Twenty-four people died and one person was reported missing after rainstorm-triggered floods and flows of mud and rock hit Tianshui City in Gansu on July 25.
Four rounds of downpours swept Tianshui City in July, triggering floods, landslides and mud-rock flows in seven townships and affecting 1.22 million people.
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