{"id":56023,"date":"2023-06-16T18:53:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jun\/16\/weather-tracker-extreme-rainfall-heat-china-asian-heatwave"},"modified":"2023-06-16T18:53:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:53:57","slug":"weather-tracker-extreme-rainfall-and-heat-hits-china-amid-asian-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56023","title":{"rendered":"Weather tracker: extreme rainfall and heat hits China amid Asian heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Dragon boat water\u2019 is breaking records in Guangxi region, as air conditioner use in Xinjiang puts strain on grid<\/p>\n<p>Many people in China have experienced a variety of weather extremes in recent days. Parts of southern and eastern China experienced prolonged periods of torrential rainfall, as the summer rains known as \u201cdragon boat water\u201d got off to a remarkable start.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Yulin in the Guangxi region experienced 35 hours of non-stop rain on 8-9 June, while the nearby city of Beihai was flooded after 614.7mm of rainfall over 24 hours in the same period. This is approximately a third of the city\u2019s average yearly precipitation, and a June record for the Guangxi region. It is in stark contrast to May, when Guangxi experienced its lowest rainfall in 60 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jun\/16\/weather-tracker-extreme-rainfall-heat-china-asian-heatwave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Dragon boat water\u2019 is breaking records in Guangxi region, as air conditioner use in Xinjiang puts strain on gridMany people in China have experienced a variety of weather extremes in recent days. Parts of southern and eastern China experienced prolong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3802,"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":[41,50,65,455,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56023","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\/3802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56029,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56023\/revisions\/56029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}