Extreme Weather Hits China With Massive Floods and Scorching Heat

HONG KONG — China is grappling with extreme weather emergencies across the country, with the worst flooding in decades submerging houses and cars in the south and record-high heat waves in the northern and central provinces causing roads to buckle.

Water levels in more than a hundred rivers across the country have surged beyond flood warning levels, according to the

the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece. The authorities in Guangdong Province on Tuesday raised alerts to…