China's Xinjiang warns of floods, cotton risks amid sizzling heatwaves

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SHANGHAI - China's Xinjiang on Saturday warned of more flash floods and mudslides and risks to agriculture asaccelerating the pace of glacial melt and posing hazards for its vast cotton production.

SHANGHAI - China's Xinjiang on Saturday warned of more flash floods and mudslides and risks to agriculture asaccelerating the pace of glacial melt and posing hazards for its vast cotton production.

She said the extreme weather in the south and east of the region, more than twice the size of France, has already lasted for about 10 days. In 2015, a local news portal reported 50.3 deg C at a weather station near Ayding, a dry lake in Xinjiang's Turpan Depression. The China Meteorological Administration said a day earlier that the glacial melting in Xinjiang poses a high risk of dam failure on a tributary of the Aksu river near China's border with Kyrgyzstan.

 

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