Author Topic: Weather in China 2020-up (Read 18138 times)

Mark · « **Reply #40 on:** February 08, 2026, 08:54:16 AM »

A powerful late-winter cold surge is about to rip across eastern China, delivering a sharp and rapid temperature collapse over the next five days.

Forecasts show temperatures tanking by 10 to 20C from the Northeast through East China as polar air drives south with little resistance. The drop will be abrupt, increasing the risk of flash freezing, transport disruption, and infrastructure stress.

Rain is expected to flip rapidly to heavy snow as the cold air undercuts moist systems moving in from the south.

Updates to follow.
https://electroverse.substack.com/p/major-cold-surge-to-hit-china-arctic

Mark · « **Reply #41 on:** May 03, 2026, 08:42:02 AM »

Eastern China has been hit by a sharp late-April cold shot.

Shanghai, normally pushing deeper into spring warmth by now, managed a daytime high of just 11.7C (53.1F) on April 29, which made for the city’s coldest April daytime max since 1939.
https://electroverse.substack.com/p/cold-shot-hits-eastern-china-us-faces

Mark · « **Reply #42 on:** May 24, 2026, 08:58:32 AM »

Heavy rains swept across central and eastern China over the weekend, hitting provinces including Jiangxi and Hunan, with more downpours expected.

The National Meteorological Center (NMC) forecasts that over the next three days, heavy rainfall will gradually move eastward and southward.

Since Friday evening, torrential rain in Ganzhou city, Jiangxi, has raised river levels and caused localized flooding. Shangyou county was hardest hit, especially Dongshan township, where rising waters disrupted electricity and water supplies, submerged streets and swept away vehicles.

By 4:30 pm Saturday, the county government had relocated 1,147 residents across a number of townships. No casualties or missing persons were reported, according to local media.
https://youtu.be/-1IWzBPE864?si=bi6YiAVExuYiDtao
https://www.sott.net/article/506367-Severe-flooding-across-central-and-eastern-China-after-record-rainfall-of-5-5-FEET-in-3-days-at-least-25-killed-20-missing-UPDATED

Mark · « **Reply #43 on:** June 14, 2026, 09:01:04 AM »

On June 8, China set another 16 June cold records, split between seven low-minimum and nine low-maximum.

Lingwu in Ningxia fell to 4.3C (39.7F), breaking its previous June low of 4.4C (39.9F), set in 1955. In Sichuan, Xuyong dropped to 14.5C (58.1F), Changning to 14.8C (58.6F), Jiang’an to 14.9C (58.8F), Dongxing District to 15C (59F), and Xuzhou to 15.6C (60.1F), all beating their previous June lows dating as far back as 1955.

The daytime anomalies were broader.

Nine stations broke or tied June low-maximum records, including Taoyuan in Hunan which reached just 17.2C (63F), beating its old June low-max of 18.6C (65.5F) from 1971. Dazu in Chongqing also held to 17.2C (63F), beating 18.4C (65.1F) from 1983.

Anhua in Hunan reached only 18.2C (64.8F), Changde 18.4C (65.1F), Changning 18.6C (65.5F), Jiang’an 18.6C (65.5F), and Yanjin in Yunnan 18.8C (65.8F), all besting old June low-maximum marks (again, in reliable records back to 1955).

This was not one cold mountain station. It was a southward-moving continental cold surge strong enough to break monthly low-temperature records from Ningxia in the north to Yunnan, Hunan and Hubei farther south.
https://electroverse.substack.com/p/record-june-cold-persists-in-northern

Mark · « **Reply #44 on:** June 21, 2026, 09:33:01 AM »

A powerful hailstorm caused significant damage to vehicles in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China, on Tuesday (June 16).

Video from the scene shows shattered windows, large dents and broken windshields on multiple vehicles following the storm.

A light-blue BMW is seen with severe damage, including punctures in the windshield and extensive dents across the bodywork.

Large hailstones visible in the footage highlight the intensity of the weather event.

SWNS
https://www.sott.net/article/506944-Massive-hailstorm-shatters-car-windows-and-dents-vehicles-in-northern-China-on-June-16

https://sott.net/en506944

Mark · « **Reply #45 on:** July 05, 2026, 08:41:56 AM »

From the night of 19 June, Hotan in Xinjiang experienced its heaviest 24-hour downpour in recorded history.

The resulting flooding in the city, which borders the Taklamakan desert, caused the temporary closure of the expressway, China Weather Network reports.

In three lunchtime hours on 20 June, the area had surpassed its average yearly precipitation, according to Xinjiang Meteorological Service.

The extreme rainstorm was caused by two banks of moist air converging over southern Xinjiang, explained China Weather Network analyst Xin Xin. The rainfall accumulated in the mountainous areas and, together with snowmelt runoff, caused flash floods, he added.

Though Xin Xin did not mention climate change as an exacerbating factor, other commentators have.

There has been snowmelt-induced flooding in the same Tarim basin area before, for instance in 2021 and the summer of 2022. But the rainfall was much more intense this time than in 2021, Tang Peng, director of the Hotan Meteorological Observatory, told Qilu Evening News.
https://www.sott.net/article/507166-Chinas-largest-desert-floods-after-record-rainfall-2-5-inches-in-24-hours-on-June-19-also-surpassed-average-yearly-precipitation-in-just-3-hours

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