let's in fact get over to china because
while it's still dealing with shutdowns
because of its zero covent policy now
the people there face another big
problem heat waves this burst of heat
comes along with a new forecast on how
hot days might stack up in a changing
climate
spain is enduring one of the worst
droughts in europe and water reserves
are currently at less than 40 percent
at splash parks on beaches
along rivers and lakes western canadians
are doing what they can to cool off and
cope the weather has been hot hot and
dry
for neighboring pakistan it was the
hottest april in 61 years and since then
the heat wave has remained relentless in
the country last weekend a city in
southern pakistan recorded the highest
temperature in south asia so far this
year
good morning everyone beautiful sunny
day here in chongqing we are part of a
heat wave and the temperatures have been
skyrocketing for weeks here as high as
45 in the city i am in china here a city
of over 32 million people and i wanted
to actually see what the surface and how
hot things got in this city this is my
little e-bike i drive you can see that
there there's the temperature gun 128
and that's in the shade let's have a
look here in the direct sunlight
it's over 140 and probably climbing
and if i directly point it up to the sun
oh wow the thing's going a bit crazy
there i'm looking at about 180. i'm just
looking at this garbage can here of
course so it's coming in at a whopping
oh it's about 109
is what it's telling me this you can
imagine what it does to plants and
forests some trees fare well these are
the plants just outside of my building
we've got a meteorologist group that i'm
going to interview ask them about what's
going on with the temperature here
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just arrived here at uh the
meteorologist's office you can just have
a look at today's temperature here going
up to a screaming 44 39 tomorrow 42
saturday 42 sunday well my good friend
gaway earlier today said to me alex you
have to get downtown to talk to a couple
of people that know
a lot about this weather a little bit
more than i do so what's the official
name
so basically you guys know whether yeah
all right so we're standing in front of
this looks like a heat map it's red
where would we say where are we now on
this map yeah right
so that's representing probably around
36 or higher right yes we're talking
about short-term weather patterns
long-term weather patterns but here's
the important part that i want to
explain about coming to this office here
is that a meteorologist in meteorology
plays a really important part on this
heat wave especially here tell us what
tools are you using to help catastrophes
or help
very serious things going on like forest
fires the most important tools is
satellites we use a centralized stage we
provide some satellites to match you
actually have access yeah we're looking
at the imagery from this
how accurate is it 25 meters so 25
meters yeah you can probably see if it's
a hot area maybe a forest fire yes yes
that's pretty important stuff but can
you imagine if they caught fire in these
temperatures you're preventing something
that could be devastating to an entire
region just like this and i want to
thank you
for communicating and using these tools
now we're going to head down to the
riverbed here just to see how dry the
yangtze river is
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no swimming
well
can you
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three weeks of over 40 every day
so right in front of me here is the
jailing river and normally people would
come down here at night walk around in
this area and enjoy a river walk and
well
it's dry
we're gonna go see really really how hot
it is down on the surface there that's
the queen seaman bridge that's from
downtown and that goes across to giant
bay which has another 935 000 residents
the riverbed here have a look at it
in this city
of 30 some million to be able to walk in
the middle of a riverbed
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this river is known to actually flood uh
sometimes during this season this river
meets just around the corner there you
see those boats and you'll see that big
beautiful construction of raffle city
it's designed like the sail like a front
of a ship to rejoice the waters coming
in from the yangtze in the jailing river
well it's not
these are the water level measurements
here
so this is in celsius right now
the water is coming in at 36.2
and it kind of looks like mars
i mean seriously mars
i just want to do a little bit of an
experiment just to see
how much a little bit of water will
survive on this surface here and the
surface temperature of that that rock
right now this one here is 110
fahrenheit you can see it
so
one minute later
pretty much all the water's gone so my
iphone is actually shut down it's coming
in at 43 anywhere fluctuating from 39 to
40 to 42 it's basically just shutting
off right now so down at this level it's
giving me a temperature of about 46.
now today i did bring
an egg i was going to boil an egg down
here today but i'm going to wait till
tomorrow because maybe i want it
scrambled
so i'll have a look at that
36 is probably already starting to boil
inside it's been blue skies for a month
but in those hills
you can see in the distance there are
fires there is a drought going on
obviously lots of fires going on all
throughout the world lots of drought
going on i know this is going to sound
like an environmental video it's not
meant to be as the same as spain as the
same as the united states canada
australia uh many many countries around
the world are suffering droughts and
very very extreme temperatures this year
there's a lot of heroes here that will
never be mentioned whether they're front
line nurses doctors military
locals everybody's pulled together
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you know maybe i'll wait to make that uh
iced tea or maybe it'll be boiling tea
tomorrow
crack that egg make some scrambled eggs
wow look at how much i'm sweating
oh i don't usually sweat this much but
anyway
i think you guys get the points of this
vlog right
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you