More than 20 weather stations in northern Hebei and eastern Shandong provinces logged record high seasonal temperatures during the first ten days of June, NMC said earlier this week.
Northern India is also in the middle of a prolonged heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius in late May. The country has recorded nearly 25,000 heat stroke cases and 56 deaths since March, its national disease control centre said on Jun 1.
Record-breaking heat scorched large parts of Asia in April, killing hundreds of people, damaging crops and forcing schools to shut down. Scientists said the heat waves were made worse – and more likely – by human-caused climate change.
Soaring temperatures will continue to envelope northern China until Jun 20 when the mercury could reach or exceed historical highs in Hebei, Shanxi as well as central Henan province, NMC said.
In Mengyin County in Shandong, local authorities have had to resort to measures like creating artificial rain to combat an unusually severe drought this year, local media reported.
