Summer Heat!

Today's weather: High = 35 Low = 23
Sunny and hot!

Well it looks like summer has arrived in Shanghai, and it has done so with a vengeance. It actually started a few days ago, as determined when the average temperature has gone above 20 degrees for at least five days in a row

This makes it the earlier summer to arrive on record. Not only that, it was the driest spring season on record with hardly a drop of rain. The length of spring was also very short, because the previous winter was the coldest on record and it also lasted longer than normal.

With all these extremes, which are normal, one has to ask if the monsoon season is going to be the wettest on record. I'm making the call that, yes, we're in for a dousing of rain any minute now. Combine that with unseasonably cool temperatures in June, and a possible return to spring in terms of 5 days where the temperature goes below 20 degrees again.