BEIJING – Deadly rain that pummelled China’s capital in recent days was the heaviest since records began 140 years ago, Beijing’s weather service said on Wednesday, as a massive cleanup operation began.
Millions of people have been hit by extreme weather events and prolonged heatwaves around the globe in recent weeks – events that scientists say are exacerbated by climate change.
The Beijing Meteorological Service said the Chinese capital has just experienced the “heaviest rainfall in 140 years”, which is as long as the city’s authorities have kept records of the weather.
“The maximum value of rainfall recorded during this storm, 744.8mm, occurred at the Wangjiayuan Reservoir in Changping,” the service said, adding that the largest volume previously recorded was 609mm in 1891.
The rainstorms that hit Beijing and neighbouring Hebei province have claimed at least 20 lives.
The epicentre of flooding shifted to Hebei on Wednesday.
In Beijing’s Fangshan district – on the border between the capital and Hebei – an AFP team saw a park that had been completely flooded, with tonnes of rubbish that had been washed away by torrential rain stuck near a bridge.
The area was “extremely dangerous” on Tuesday, a police officer said.
Journalists also saw a military vehicle with caterpillar wheels on its way back from the worst-affected areas.
And AFP saw an ambulance, a rescue boat and a police car heading to Zhuozhou, a hard-hit district of Hebei.
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2023-08-02 09:19:24Z
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