New records created as temperatures soar (14)

（People's Daily Online） 09:57, July 31, 2013

A toucan enjoys the coolness brought by artificial rainfall in Shanghai zoo, July 30, 2013. According to Shanghai Meteorological Center, the highest temperature was 38-39 degrees Celsius on July 30, which is about to break the record of the number of high-temperature days in July in the past 140 years.(Xinhua/Yang Shichao)

BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhuanet) --An update on the hot weather conditions across China. The whole country has been divided into two huge temperature zones.

One is in northwest China and the other is in the south. These zones apart, many towns and cities are setting new records this summer. The electricity load of Beijing has broken its historical record.

In Zhenjiang city in Jiangsu province, a lorry transferring fishes over-turned scattering fishes across the ground. Suprsingly most of the fishes were reportedly cooked there and then, due to the high temperature of the road surface.

At Renmin square in Shanghai, the ground is so hot that it can even fry bacon.

Meteorological authorities on Tuesday issued the highest alert for high temperatures in history of the whole country.

(Source: cntv.cn)

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