China News Service, Shijiazhuang, June 21 (Reporter Li Xiaowei) Hebei Province, which is located on the North China Plain, has experienced "barbecue days" for the past few days, and the local area has issued high temperature orange and red warning signals.

The majority of candidates who have ushered in the high school entrance examination here are also subject to "baking tests".

　　On the 21st, it was the summer solstice solar term. The Hebei Meteorological Observatory continued to issue a red warning signal for high temperature. It is expected that during the day, the temperature in eastern Baoding, Xiongan New Area, Shijiazhuang, western Cangzhou, Hengshui, and northern Xingtai will reach 40 ℃.

Since June 17, the province has successively issued multiple high-temperature orange and red warnings, and issued a weather risk level forecast for heat stroke, reminding the public to take precautions.

　　In Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province that day, the clouds that occasionally drifted by could not stop the power of the scorching sun. Standing outside for a while at noon, the heat was unbearable.

People traveling have put on sun hats, sunglasses, and sunscreen clothing.

There are queues in cold drink shops, and large supermarkets and shopping malls have become popular places for people to enjoy the cool and relax.

　　On the morning of the same day, the two-day 2022 high school entrance examination in Hebei Province officially started.

The reporter found that many test centers have set up awnings at the entrances, and equipped with heatstroke prevention and cooling materials.

Outside the examination room, parents waited patiently in the heat, shaking fans from time to time to drink water.

　　According to the Hebei Provincial Meteorological Observatory, this round of high temperature process is the strongest, longest lasting and most widely affected high temperature process this year.

Controlled by a warm high-pressure ridge, the sky in Hebei is clear and less cloudy, the solar radiation warming is strong, and the cold air in the north is weaker, which together caused this high temperature process.

　　The Hebei Meteorological Observatory predicts that there will be a precipitation process from the second day of the high school entrance examination to the 23rd on June 22, which will relieve the high temperature to some extent, but there will be high temperature weather from the 24th to the 26th in the later period.

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