The weather during the sume: in Shanghai obtained unpleasant notoriely. A record heat wave hit Shanghai. Tt started on June 25 when the Slecawel Observatory istered a maximum shade temper ture of 1015 and it continued until August 28 with a maximum shade temperature of 954. The first twenty-two days of the "wove" averaged exactly 100 for the maximum shade temperature and on July 12, the record maximum of 1044 was recorded. This eclipsed the previous records set up in 1928 when the maximum was over 100 for eighty days. The rainfall for June. July and August was so small thai the precipitation was recorded as sixteen inches below normal. This. heat coincided with severe drought} jin the Yangtze Valley which was
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