July 11 Hottest Day of Year Maximum 99.7
To many, Sunday's (July 11) Yem-Teor degrees, but actualy" although marked, the hotest day) go for this egreee, but actualy,
year, the thermometer did not reach the centurys Tt reached 00% Deat-Ing the previous maximum this Year, 03 recorded on July 7, by four points.
Weather records for the present year frst went by the bootd of July When, after a. sweltering night. and a bolling day, the temperature nearly Teached. the century mark, Slecawel Feporting "a maximum. temperature of 093 and a minimum of 77, both figures. being. far" in excess of the Fecordings for the same date last year It did not need the authority the Glecawel pundits to prove. that the "doy was" a. "stinker" Every: body Imnew a8 they mobilized fons, Lightweight clothing, leod drinks. and What ite remained of sore and tried tempers to preserve. '0 cool. com= otto. Office workers arrived "at Dusiness after" passing trough streets of steaming heat to And tem-|7 perature of 90 degrees hovering around their desks, Under the terrific heat roads became virtual rivers of tar through which the bare feet of: rickshaw coolies plodded, their bodies dripping with perspiration, As a result, there was record trade among the hawkers of iced water, drinks ard fruit, and the tea urns scattered about Shang-hal by charitable-minded persons for the benefit of rickshaw pullers were emptied and refilled time and time again, Whatever shade provided by trees on the Bund and the shadows of the buildings in the Central district was utilized by Chinese seeking relict from the heat, and scores of thousands made their beds in the streets last night, Tomiperature Variety Shanghai's whimsicality _in.tem= perature recording which makes even the most faithful of thermometers Suspect was proved by different parts of Shanghi Siccawei reported a maximum of 99.8 and a minimum of 77 degrees, and the Cathedral readings were maximum, 98 and minimum 705, 0 resort to four public parks where cooling breezes blow and trees cast a pleasant shade on thousands of visitors revealed fan interesting diversity during the hours ending at 4 pam, They are follows:
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