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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
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 ...
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.
BEIJING (Reuters) -Dramatic swings between extreme heat and intense rainfall are testing China's ability to cope with increasingly wild weather, as high temperatures challenge power grids and ...
Weather events in China have become more intense and unpredictable because of global warming, scientists say, with record-breaking rainfall and drought assailing the world's second-largest economy ...
China’s government has mounted a top-down effort to revamp how the country responds to extreme weather in recent years after 2021 floods in Henan’s Zhengzhou killed more than 300 people. And ...
Chinese believed that natural disasters would foretell the end of a dynasty or the death of a great leader. This concept of cosmic linkage between natural disasters and human conduct was radically rejected at the height of Maoist years when nature was represented as ‘an enemy to be overcome, an adversary to be brought to heel’.
The summer was also characterized by extreme cyclonic activity. In July of that year alone, nine cyclones hit the region, which was significantly above the average of two per year. [ 8 ] Four weather stations along the Yangtze River reported rain totalling over 600 mm (24 in) for the month. [ 8 ]