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This category includes historic weather events which have occurred in China. This category includes floods caused by rain, but not floods caused simply by dam failures. For non-weather related events, see Category:Disasters in China
In August, the weather reached 43.5 °C in Gao County, 43.4 °C in Jianyang and Zigong, 41 °C in Mianyang, 34.9 °C in Chongqing at night, and 45 °C in Beibei. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] On 18 August, it was reported that silver iodide was used to form clouds in Anhui and other provinces. [ 14 ]
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
China is a mountainous country, which leads to rapid dissipation of cyclones that move inland as well as significant amounts of rain from those dissipating cyclones. Typhoon Nina in 1975 caused the collapse of two huge reservoirs and ten smaller dams when 1062 mm (41.81 inches) of rain fell in Henan Province during a 24‑hour period.
Legitimate acquisition of games and the hardware to play them was still relatively expensive in China, which continued to fuel the video game clone market in China. [11] A large number of PC gamers in China acquired software through illegal downloads and pirated software websites to avoid the cost.
Video by CNS reporter who traveled on a CRH train, from Xingtai East station to Zhengzhou East station, on 21 July Another CNS video report of the floods on 20 July, depicting Henan Province Streets in Zhengzhou during the flood on 20 July, depicted by a China News Service (CNS) video report. On 16 July 2021, Zhengzhou began to experience heavy ...
Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Extreme events are based on a location's recorded weather history.
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...