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When is it hot in summer?

Summer is usually from July 6th to 8th in the Gregorian calendar every year.

When the sun reaches longitude 105, it is a light summer, so the time of light summer is not fixed, usually on July 6 -8 of the Gregorian calendar every year. For example, the summer heat in 2020 is July 6, and the summer heat in 202 1 is July 7. Slight summer is the eleventh solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, and its arrival means the arrival of hot summer days.

Brief introduction of Xiao Shu:

Although little summer is not the hottest season in a year, it is followed by the hottest solar term in a year. There is a folk saying that "it is hot in summer and hot in summer, and it is steamed on the top and cooked on the bottom". Many places in China have entered the season with the most thunderstorms since the high temperature in summer.

The heat began to enter the dog days. The so-called "hot dog days". The dog days usually appear between the high temperature in summer and the high temperature in summer, which is the highest temperature, humid and sultry time of the year.

Monsoon climate is the main feature of China climate. In summer, many places in China are hot, humid and rainy under the influence of warm and humid air currents from the ocean. Although the sunshine is fierce, the temperature is high, the humidity is high and there is a lot of rain in this season, for crops, the same period of rain and heat is conducive to growth.