This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2016-07-01 07:52
Item from July 1, 1999, in China Daily: Several customers shop for air conditioners in an electrical appliance shop in Beijing. ... Since June 25, the capital's temperatures have been above 35 C daily, with the maximum hitting 40 C, statistics from the Beijing Observatory Station indicate.
April and May have set new global temperature records, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
The temperature for April was 1.09 C warmer than the average for April from 1951 to 1980, which is used as a base period. The temperature for May was 0.93 C warmer than the May base period.
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