What time is it? Summertime!
Pull out those sunglasses and lather up those sunblocks because on May 18, Shanghai officially welcomed summer, reported the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau.
Last Thursday marked the first official day of summer after the lixia ended (seventh solar term according to East Asian calendars) occurred on May 5. Monday, May 22, was the fifth consecutive day that had a daily average temperature higher than 22 degrees Celsius.
According to records from 1981 to 2016, Shanghai usually steps into summer around May 28. This year, Shanghai couldn't wait for a taste of the sun as summer began a full ten days early. Even so, the earliest summer ever recorded was May 6, 2009; the latest being June 24, 1995.
However, the sweltering summer heat has yet to kick in thanks to the thunderstorms and overcast conditions in the city this week. After Wednesday, Shanghai will bake in the heat as temperatures continue to climb. Thursday reports a high temperature of 27 degrees and Friday marks a day over 30 degrees.
Further wetter and warmer days are headed to Shanghai as last Sunday established the solar term of xiaoman, the eighth solar term in the lunar calendar.
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