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The Yang Jie River Basin Forecast
Are we living in a moment or should we be thinking about the trend more widely? I don't think we have an answer yet because only the last couple of weeks has gotten much hotter as that heat wave moved up from Southeast Asia into Southern China. And already you've seen in Shanghai and Chengdu and other cities record temperatures for May and starting to get close for June. If that trend continues, then we're on a worse trajectory than we were last year - it started really in early July, late June. So if you just take the last two weeks, it doesn't look great in terms of will we be better off than last year at the river level, but also the wider climate