Beijing?has recorded an average temperature of 21.5 degrees
Celsius since it enters autumn, 2.4 degrees Celsius higher than its
regular falls.
Meteorologists at the State Climate Center said on Friday that
it is the second warmest fall the city experienced over the past 50
years.
Beijing was not unique. The meteorologists said unusually warm
weather persisted in the fall throughout the country, with a
temperature 0.9 degrees Celsius higher on average.
In the summer this year, China recorded an average temperature
of 21.4 degrees Celsius, one degree Celsius higher than regular
years. All this manifested climate in China has become warmer, and
the process conformed to the trend of global warming, according to
Ye Dianxiu, a researcher with the state climate center.
Another researcher from the center, Liu Yanxiang, said the
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau experienced a record hot summer this year.
Part of it, at an altitude of 5,000 meters, helped a lot with the
heating-up of the atmosphere and then directed affected weather in
northern China.
Meanwhile, the interaction of high pressure from the south Asian
sub-continent in the west and subtropical high pressure in the east
helped form a scorching weather in southwestern areas, particularly
Chongqing, which suffered a worst drought over the past five
decades.
Meteorologists in Beijing forecast that China would likely
encounter a warm winter over the turn of the year, as a new
Elninoin the Pacific at the central and eastern part of the
equator.
(Xinhua News Agency October 14, 2006)