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2 clear days ... then thunderstorms
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CLEARER weather is forecast for today and tomorrow following recent rainy days, but thunderstorms are set to return at the weekend.
Temperatures are expected to climb to 29 degrees Celsius with clear skies today, after the deluge yesterday, and it should remain fine tomorrow, said the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau yesterday.
It will be less humid too, as the recent rain belt leaves the city, moving south.
Yesterday, the bureau issued a yellow rain storm alert — the second lowest level on a four-tier scale — at 8:45am, predicting more than 50 millimeters of rain within six hours. A lightning alert was given about 10:15am.
According to the bureau, by 4pm some districts had recorded 70 millimeters of rain, with the Nanhui weather station in the Pudong New Area returning a reading of more than 80 millimeters.
The benchmark Xujiahui weather station recorded just over 48 millimeters of precipitation.
Due to the thunderstorms, four international flights scheduled to land at Shanghai Pudong International Airport were transferred to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport yesterday afternoon.
Thunderstorms are predicted again at the weekend with temperatures ranging from 23 to 30 degrees.
Saturday marks the solar term chushu — end of heat — signaling summer’s end.
However, Kong Chunyan, a chief service officer at the bureau, said temperatures are still too high to officially declare it autumn.
Autumn’s official arrival requires the daily average temperature to remain below 22 degrees for five consecutive days, weathermen said.
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