Abstract: The high temperature is a kind of disastrous weather with serious harmfulness. Its occurrence and development are not only be related to the warm atmospheric circulation, but also have a connection with other factors such as heat island effect, subsidence and temperature increasing as well as terrain. In the paper, a brief retrospect has been made that many scientists have achieved research results in the basic characteristics, the formative causes of high temperature meteorological disaster, risk assessment of disaster and so on. At the same time, this paper systematically reveals some advances in studying high temperature meteorological disasters.