According to the Chongqing Municipal Weather Press Conference in August 2020, during the day from August 4th to 8th, most areas will be sunny to cloudy, and there will be scattered thunderstorms or showers from noon to night, with temperatures ranging from 23 to 39°C, and the highest temperature in low altitude areas will exceed 40°C.
From the night of August 8th to the 10th, moderate rain to heavy rain in most areas, local heavy rain, temperature 22 ~ 35 ℃.
From August 11th to 13th, most areas will be cloudy with showers or thunderstorms in the local area, with temperatures ranging from 24 to 39℃, and the highest temperature in low altitude areas will still exceed 40℃.
It is expected that the temperature in August will be generally high and the high temperature will be prominent in stages. The extreme maximum temperature in ground and river valleys can reach 40~42℃, and the number of high temperature days exceeding 35℃ can reach 10-22 days in August.
Here are a group of photos showing that people continue to work in Chongqing under hot weather.
Shunters Chen Chaorui and Gu Tian were being engaged in shunting operations under the scorching sun at Chongqing Bei (North) Railway Station on August 5, 2020. Despite the hot weather, the shunting team at the station needs to recondition, decouple, and a couple more than 200 trains on average every day to ensure the orderly operation of railway transportation during the summer vacation. (Photo by Cui Li)
Shunter Gu Tian was decoupling a train under the burning sun at Chongqing Bei (North) Railway Station on August 5, 2020. Despite the hot weather, the shunting team at the station needs to recondition, decouple, and a couple more than 200 trains on average every day to ensure the orderly operation of railway transportation during the summer vacation. (Photo by Cui Li)
Citizens were riding on the road as the sun rose in Pingxiang Road, Liangjiang New Area, on August 5, 2020. (Photo by Zhang Jinhui)
At noon on August 5, 2020, on Yinhua Road in Yubei District, a delivery man was in a great hurry to deliver packages under the scorching sun. (Photo by Luo Bin)
On August 5, in the hot weather with a high temperature of 40℃, Huang Qi, a policeman from the traffic patrol detachment of Jiangbei District Public Security Bureau, was directing the traffic near Guanyinqiao Ring Road. (Photo by Qi Lansen/Visual Chongqing)
On August 5, 2020, an inspection team was patrolling in the forest area of Xinzheng Village, Zhongliangshan Sub-district, Jiulongpo District. At present, in response to the consecutive hot and sunny weather in summer, the sub-district has organized a forest fire prevention emergency team consisting of 83 people. For the 680,000-square-meter forest area, the team is on duty in three shifts in a day to monitor and respond to likely emergencies. (Photo by Zheng Yu/Visual Chongqing )