Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
I think you might want to look at that a bit more closely - Beijing had an extremely cold spell for most of December, that does make December the coldest on record for Beijing. Not the whole of China as far as I'm aware.

And despite the extreme cold in northern china - globally 2023 was the warmest year on record.
December record lows were recorded at 78 of China's weather stations, and ... China's Xinjiang region, in the far west of the country, experienced record-breaking low temperatures of -52.3C on 18 February, so into February as well