That seems to have been linked to the catastrophic floods in Pakistan and huge forest fires in Russia which help explain the big food-price rises in the second half of last year.
In the past 2, 000 years, the Yangtze River has experienced 215 catastrophic floods.
Pakistan has just experienced both extreme heat and catastrophic floods; Russia has been scorched by heatwave and its forests incinerated.
The city of omacre was attacked by violent winds and catastrophic floods.
