Story highlights
- Shanghai experiences its hottest July in at least 140 years
- Dozens of people have died from heat-related causes in recent weeks, state media report
- A meteorological agency has issued its second-highest national alert
- Local authorities are resorting to cloud-seeding methods to try to induce rain
Record-breaking temperatures have been searing large swaths of China, resulting in dozens of heat-related deaths and prompting authorities to issue a national alert.
People are packing into swimming pools or taking refuge in caves in their attempts to escape the fierce temperatures. Local governments are resorting to cloud-seeding technology to try to bring rain to millions of acres of parched farmland.
The worst of the smoldering heat wave has been conc