Loving the weather right now!

As we scanned Facebook last night we saw pictures of snow back home!!!!  Hope everyone has warm Halloween costumes this year! 

Here in Wuxi, the weather has been fantastic (thank goodness after the summer we had)!  We have been enjoying 70-80 degree weather for the past month or two and it is just now starting to dip into the 60s! 

We never posted about the heat we experienced our first 2-2.5 months here, so we thought we would share! 

Shanghai saw its hottest July in 140 years as temperatures soared to 100ºF or higher for 10 straight days between July 23 and August 1. The coastal city reached 95ºF (35ºC) or higher on 25 days last month, 14 of which exceeded 100ºF (37.8ºC).

The Shanghai Daily reports that the city’s meteorological bureau recorded a temperature of 105.4ºF (40.8ºC) on August 7, which breaks the previous record of 105.1º (40.6ºC) from both July 26 and August 6, 2013.  Prior to this year, the all-time high at Shanghai’s Xujiahui weather observatory was 104.4ºF set in 1934.  High humidity and trapped urban heat have also kept overnight temperatures several degrees above normal. On July 29, Shanghai only dropped to 88ºF (31ºC).

If anybody is planning a trip to China in the future, I would avoid July and August (probably June too)!