{"id":56854,"date":"2023-07-21T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/brutal-heat-heavy-rain-week-extreme-weather"},"modified":"2023-07-21T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:59:10","slug":"how-brutal-heat-is-breaking-records-everywhere-from-the-us-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56854","title":{"rendered":"How brutal heat is breaking records everywhere from the US to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures reached as high as 53.3C in the US and flooding hit South Korea and India <\/p>\n<p>A remote township in the north-western region of Xinjiang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/17\/extreme-temperatures-recorded-across-northern-hemisphere\">set a Chinese record<\/a> of 52.2C (125.9F) on Sunday \u2013 in a country that was battling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2023\/01\/23\/china-record-low-temperature-mohe\/\">-50C weather<\/a> six months ago. Sanbao is in the Turpan Depression, an arid basin of sand dunes and dried-up lakes where 50.3C was recorded in 2015. Beijing topped its record for high-temperature days in a year on Tuesday, with 27 days above 35C. The temperature in its southern suburbs soared even higher on Wednesday to 36.3C.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/brutal-heat-heavy-rain-week-extreme-weather\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures reached as high as 53.3C in the US and flooding hit South Korea and India A remote township in the north-western region of Xinjiang set a Chinese record of 52.2C (125.9F) on Sunday \u2013 in a country that was battling -50C weather six months a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[50,221,455,402,62,451,88,212,1240,399,222,746,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-extreme-weather","category-greece","category-india","category-italy","category-japan","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-morocco","category-palestinian-territories","category-south-korea","category-spain","category-us-news","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\/56854","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56855,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56854\/revisions\/56855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}