Tag: Beijing weather
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Bring on the Fu and the Sound of Cicadas
We are almost in the hottest period of the year for Beijing, the so-called “fu tian” (伏天), better known as the “dog days of summer”. There are three of them: The first fu runs from July 7th to July 26th, The second fu runs from July 27th to August 15th, And the third and last…
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Hot and Green
So Beijing has one of those funny temperatures that goes from “Wow, it’s kinda cold” to “Wow, it’s hot outside.” Well, it recently reached the latter part of that temperature scale with the mercury easily climbing to 20C or higher. Now, since most of you reading this here blog have probably never lived or perhaps even visited China…