{"id":480586,"date":"2025-08-30T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/shanghai-endures-25-days-of-extreme-heat-and-breaks-a-century-old-record\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:35:44","slug":"shanghai-endures-25-days-of-extreme-heat-and-breaks-a-century-old-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/shanghai-endures-25-days-of-extreme-heat-and-breaks-a-century-old-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai endures 25 days of extreme heat and breaks a century-old record"},"content":{"rendered":"Tianjin (China).-<\/strong> The eastern Chinese city of Shanghai<\/strong> recorded this Saturday its 25th consecutive day of extreme temperatures<\/strong>, thus surpassing the historical record of 24 consecutive days with more than 35 degrees reached in 1926,<\/strong> according to meteorological data cited by the local press.\n\n\n

The phenomenon began on August 6th and has become the longest sustained heat streak in almost a century, according to the local media Xinmin Evening News.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nAt 11:05 local time (03:05 GMT), some stations in the metropolis were already recording 35 degrees, confirming the 44th day of high temperatures so far this year and the 25th consecutive.\n\nAccording to the historical average, around seven days with values above the 35-degree threshold are usually recorded in Shanghai in August.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Europe suffers an ‘exceptional’ heatwave that raises temperatures to over 42\u00ba<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAnomalies were already detected in the first episode of intense heat of the season, which occurred on June 17, ten days earlier than usual.\n\n\n

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Local meteorologists cited by Xinmin attribute the situation to the anomalous behavior of the subtropical high-pressure system in the Northwest Pacific.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn June, it moved west and north, which favored the early arrival of heat; in July it weakened temporarily due to the influence of several typhoons; and in August it intensified again and remained over the Yangtze River delta (eastern China), causing the current thermal persistence.\n\nLocal experts have recently warned of the lengthening of the warm season in China and a greater frequency of extreme weather events under the influence of climate change.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tianjin (China).- The eastern Chinese city of Shanghai recorded this Saturday its 25th consecutive day of extreme temperatures, thus surpassing the historical record of 24 consecutive days with more than 35 degrees reached in 1926, according to meteorological data cited by the local press. The phenomenon began on August 6th and has become the longest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[42110,13832],"class_list":["post-480586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-extreme-heat","tag-shanghai"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-211o","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-08-30T113126.152.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-08-30T113126.152.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}