Beijing breaches 40°C for first time in 9 years | Business

Zhang Qiao/VCG via Getty ImagesEarly on Thursday, the city of nearly 22 million people raised an orange alert, the second-highest weather warning.For climate change news and analysis, go to The temperature in Beijing soared above 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday for the first time since 2014 as the Chinese capital warned of blistering hot weather through the weekend with the return of heatwaves that scorched northern China a week earlier.

Early on Thursday the city of nearly 22 million people raised an orange alert, the second highest weather warning, saying that temperatures could rise as high as 39°C in most parts of the city from Thursday to Saturday. In the port city of Tianjin, increased demand for air-conditioning pushed its power grid load to 14.54 million kilowatts on 15 June, up 23% from a year earlier, and spurred its local utility department to dispatch workers to patrol underground tunnels every day to ensure electrical cables are in working order.

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