Hangzhou suffers its hottest day for 62 years
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A tourist (R) holds a fan for shelter beside the West Lake in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, July 25, 2013. The highest temperature in Hangzhou reached 40.3 degrees Celsius on Thursday. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Since early July, there have been 90,000 visits to ten air-raid shelters in the provincial capital.
On Wednesday afternoon, Hangzhou saw its electrical load exceed 11 million kilowatts, a new record and about a 10 percent increase compared with the same period in 2012.
To ensure residential electricity consumption, the Hangzhou government suspended use of some street lighting and told all enterprises to initiate their emergency plans for off-peak power consumption.
Neighboring Shanghai municipality issued an orange alert for high temperatures Thursday and this was soon upgraded to a rare red alert as the temperature reached 39.3 degrees Celsius.
The figure is the fourth highest in late July for Shanghai in 140 years.
China has a three-tier alert on high temperatures, yellow, orange and red.
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