{"id":47982,"date":"2022-08-30T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T05:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/rain-eases-chinas-record-heatwave-but-fresh-energy-crisis-looms"},"modified":"2022-08-30T14:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T05:51:04","slug":"rain-eases-chinas-record-heatwave-but-fresh-energy-crisis-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47982","title":{"rendered":"Rain eases China\u2019s record heatwave but fresh energy crisis looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather agencies warn of flooding as analyst warns a winter energy crunch is \u2018highly likely\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Rain across central China this week is expected to relieve the country\u2019s worst heatwave on record, but weather agencies are now warning of potential floods, while analysts say the energy crisis exacerbated by the months-long drought is not over.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half of China has been affected by the latest heatwave, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/24\/china-issues-alert-drought-heatwave-put-crops-at-risk\">hottest since record-keeping began in 1961<\/a>. Hundreds of temperature records have been broken, and the heat has exacerbated the effects of low rainfall, drying up rivers and reservoirs across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/rain-eases-chinas-record-heatwave-but-fresh-energy-crisis-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather agencies warn of flooding as analyst warns a winter energy crunch is \u2018highly likely\u2019Rain across central China this week is expected to relieve the country\u2019s worst heatwave on record, but weather agencies are now warning of potential floods, whi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2331,65,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47983,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47982\/revisions\/47983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}