Beijing sizzles at 106 degrees, hottest June day recorded in China’s capital

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BEIJING, June 22 — The temperature in Beijing breached 106 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday and shattered the record for the hottest day in June as heatwaves that had seared northern China a week earlier returned to the Chinese capital. A weather station in the southern suburbs, considered to be Beijing’s main gauge, recorded 106 Fahrenheit at 3:19 p.m. local time, according to the official Beijing Daily. The previous June high was logged on June 10, 1961, when the mercury hit 105 F. In Tanghekou in Beijing’s northeast, the temperature pushed even higher to 107 F, helping the small township clinch...