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New models explain conditions that led to 21 runners dying at China event, and could help improve accuracy of future forecasts
In late May 2021, 172 runners set out to tackle a 100km ultramarathon in north-west China. By the next day by hypothermia after an unexpectedly intense storm brought freezing temperatures, strong winds and hail to an upland section of the course. Weather forecasts had predicted a cold front, but had not captured how extreme the conditions would be.
There are no meteorological stations in the area and survivor reports are subjective, but now a new hyper-local weather model – using topographic data at tens of metre resolution rather than kilometres – indicates that the intense wind and rain caused temperatures to drop by 6.7°C. Taking the blizzard-like conditions into account and the effect of wet clothes on body temperature, the study – which is published in the – estimates that runners would have experienced an apparent temperature of -10°C.

Across Central and Eastern Europe, Beijing's partnership with Moscow since its invasion of Ukraine has governments distancing themselves from Chinese initiatives and looking for alternatives.

The world can still step back from the abyss. The nuclear weapon states – the US, Russia, China, France and the UK – must lead the way
In 1945 nuclear weapons were used in armed conflict for the first and only time. 355,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by two nuclear bombs.
Two. That number alone puts in stark perspective the world’s current arsenal of about 13,000 nuclear weapons.
Jacinda Ardern is the prime minister of New Zealand

A report by the Bay Area Equity Atlas says 11 of the region's census tracts are segregated low-income Asian American/Pacific Islander neighborhoods.

It is not just political matters that exercise Beijing but also the moral outlook of art and entertainment
“The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means,” Miss Prism explains in The Importance of Being Earnest. Censors in China agree, as shown by a to Minions: The Rise of Gru. The original film saw the supervillain riding away with his conspirator Wild Knuckles, who had faked his death to avoid capture. Chinese viewers, however, learned via end titles that Wild Knuckles had in fact been arrested and jailed for 20 years, while Gru “returned to his family” and his biggest accomplishment is “being a father to his three girls”. So much for Despicable Him.
Similarly, the Chinese streaming site Tencent Video offered a to Fight Club earlier this year, though it is unclear whether censors imposed the change or the company was pre-empting their potential wrath. Hollywood’s version shows the narrator watching as multiple buildings explode – in an anarchistic, anti-capitalist plot hatched by his imaginary alter ego. No buildings were harmed in the Tencent version; instead, viewers were informed that “the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding”.
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