CCTV News:According to the China Meteorological Bureau, not only China has experienced hot weather recently, but other countries in the northern hemisphere are also very "hot". Monitoring shows that the temperature in most parts of the world has been higher than normal since July, especially in Asia, Europe and North America in the northern hemisphere. A wide range of high-temperature heat waves occurred in Japan and South Korea; Sweden, Denmark, southern Norway and northern Finland are also experiencing extreme heat waves; Quebec, Canada, suffered a continuous high temperature that was rare for decades in early July. Experts from the National Climate Center said that the frequent occurrence of high temperatures in the northern hemisphere this summer was due to the obvious weak diffusion of cold air from the Arctic to the south. In addition, the subtropical high that controls East Asia is unusually northerly and strong, and affected by it, the temperature in central and eastern China, South Korea, Japan and other places is unusually high, which is prone to high temperature weather.
According to the statistics released by the Fire Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan on July 31, from April 30 to July 29 this year, the number of people who were rushed to the hospital due to heatstroke in Japan totaled 57,534, of which 125 died. The number of people sent to hospital for heatstroke in these three months alone has exceeded the total number of the whole hot season from May 1 to September 30 last year. Statistics show that according to administrative regions, Tokyo has the largest number of doctors, followed by Osaka Prefecture, and Aichi Prefecture ranks third. In terms of age, the elderly accounted for 48.7% of the total number of doctors.
On July 31, the German Meteorological Bureau predicted that the temperature in some areas will reach 39 degrees Celsius in the future, which is the highest temperature so far this year. Faced with the high temperature, some residents in Germany choose to go to the igloo for the summer.
The continuous high temperature has also caused many rivers in Germany to dry up, causing a large area of fish to die. According to local officials in Hamburg, five tons of fish have been killed, and local firefighters have to pump water into the dry river to help the fish survive.
Recently, many mountain fires have raged in California, USA. According to American media reports, as of July 30, at least 8 people have died in the severely affected northern California.
In Shasta County, where the disaster is severe, 723 houses have been destroyed. On the 30th, local public service officials said that strong winds and high temperatures made the fire difficult to control.
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