{"id":24374,"date":"2022-07-18T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=24374"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","slug":"china-floods-leave-at-least-12-dead-with-thousands-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/07\/18\/china-floods-leave-at-least-12-dead-with-thousands-evacuated\/","title":{"rendered":"China floods leave at least 12 dead, with thousands evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flash floods in south-west and north-west\u00a0China\u00a0have left at least a dozen dead and put thousands of others in harm\u2019s way, state media has reported.<\/p>\n

In the south-western province of Sichuan, at least six people have died and another 12 are missing after torrential rain triggered flash floods, state-owned news outlet CGTN reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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About 1,300 people had been evacuated as of Saturday, the report said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Longnan city in the north-western province of Gansu, another six deaths were reported and 3,000 people had been evacuated, state broadcaster CCTV said. Rainfall over 1\u00bd days was as much as 98.9mm in the worst-affected areas, almost double the July average.<\/p>\n

The rains come amid a heatwave in parts of the country including eastern Zhejiang province and the city of Shanghai, with temperatures soaring as high as 42C (107.6F) last week.<\/p>\n

The heatwaves are expected to return this week in many parts of China, lasting through to late August, the state weather forecaster said. Temperatures from 39C to 42C (102.2F-107.6\u00b0F) are expected in the southern region after July 20, including the provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian.<\/p>\n

The sweltering heat will last for an \u201cextended period\u201d of 40 days, up from the usual 30, the forecaster said on its website.<\/p>\n

Experts say such extreme weather events are becoming more likely because of climate change. Warmer air can store more water, leading to bigger cloudbursts when it is released.<\/p>\n

The flooding adds to economic woes brought on partly by\u00a0stringent zero-Covid measures\u00a0restricting travel and disrupting supply chains.<\/p>\n

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A vehicle beside part of a bridge that was washed away by flood waters on a river in Qingyang, in north-west China\u2019s Gansu province, on Saturday.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

China is not the only country experiencing extreme weather. Firefighters in Portugal, Spain, France, Greece and Morocco are\u00a0battling forest fires\u00a0raging across tens of thousands of hectares as this week\u2019s\u00a0heatwave continues to bring extreme temperatures\u00a0and cause hundreds of deaths across south-western Europe.<\/p>\n

The second heatwave of the summer \u2013 with temperatures hitting 47C (116F) in\u00a0Portugal\u00a0and 45C in Spain \u2013 has triggered wildfires that have forced the evacuation of thousands of people.<\/p>\n

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In the UK, the\u00a0first ever red warning for exceptional heat\u00a0has come into force, with temperatures expected to climb up to 41C (105.8F) over the next two days, breaking the country\u2019s heat records.<\/p>\n

In Germany, low water levels in the Rhine due to droughts have disrupted the supply chain for commodities into the country. Heatwaves have also hit the southern US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flash floods in south-west and north-west\u00a0China\u00a0have left at least a dozen dead and put thousands of others in harm\u2019s way, state media has reported. In the south-western province of Sichuan, at least six people have died and another 12 are missing after torrential rain triggered flash floods, state-owned news outlet CGTN reported on Sunday. About […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8173,4321,7893,9331,3862,5222,6083,5241,10022,6621,12617,9203,5787,11638,5575,66,5993,6481,6685,5205,7512,6831,5457,7964,1975,7513,10716,7887,7398,9110,5601,4293,7333,6584,12605,6348,8869,9085,3954,6309,5603],"class_list":["post-24374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-bridge","tag-broadcaster","tag-chain","tag-city","tag-climate-change","tag-covid","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-economic-woes","tag-europe","tag-evacuated","tag-evacuation","tag-flood","tag-forced","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-greece","tag-heatwave","tag-heatwaves","tag-july","tag-longnan-city","tag-missing","tag-morocco","tag-north","tag-portugal","tag-qingyang","tag-rain","tag-rainfall","tag-rains","tag-river","tag-shanghai","tag-spain","tag-summer","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-us","tag-water","tag-weather","tag-will","tag-zero-covid","tag-zhejiang"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50820,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24374\/revisions\/50820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}