Shanghai Tan

It’s been the 21st days in the row that the temperature at Shanghai is above 35 °C, with the record of 39.6 °C for 3 days already. I already forgot the day where walking on the street doesn’t feel like being burned by the sun, and sleeping at home with the windows opened. It’s now becoming the most common conversation subject: “damn it’s so hot!”, “do you keep the AC on while sleeping?”, “I’m dying of heat at home/work.”, etc, etc, etc.

Not only are the weather and heat becoming a hot conversation subject, but it’s often a subject of newspaper headline as well. I’ve captured some photos shown on Shanghai Daily lately…

Ice cubes were placed in some older subway trains where AC isn't sufficiently powerful.
In Shanghai, it's not uncommon for people to bike while carrying an embrella to protect from the Sun.	Cold vapor were pumped outside at some high density touristic spots.
Sexy boy!	Shanghai heat
Shanghai heat	Shanghai heat
Shanghai heat	Shanghai heat

Lots of people don’t have AC installed at home, some people can’t afford opening AC the whole night, some people have temperature conflict between family members… As for me, I can’t stand a minute at home without AC.

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