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Weather characteristics of summer solar terms

1, autumn tiger: It is already the dog days of the midsummer solar term, but people often feel the hot weather during the midsummer solar term, which is the "autumn tiger" weather in autumn.

2. Cooling: Summer vacation is the second solar term in autumn, and it is also a transitional solar term in which the temperature turns from hot to cool. After entering the summer vacation, people will feel that the temperature has started to drop significantly.

3. Thunderstorm weather: Thunderstorm weather often occurs in summer solar terms, but thunderstorm activities are not as active as in summer, mainly concentrated in South China, Southwest China and West China. People in this area should watch the weather forecast before going out to avoid getting wet.

Summer is the fourteenth of the twenty-four solar terms. Dou Zhiwu (Southwest); The solar meridian reaches150; August 22-24 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Being in the heat is "out of the heat", that is, out of the heat. In summer, the direct point of the sun continues to move southward, the solar radiation weakens, the subtropical high also withdraws southward, the temperature gradually drops, and the summer heat gradually disappears. The arrival of summer means that the hot and difficult weather is over. During this period, the weather is still hot, but it has shown a downward trend. Summer solar terms are in the period of short-term high-temperature weather (autumn tiger), which generally occurs between August and September in the Gregorian calendar. The duration of autumn tigers generally ranges from half a month to two months. The significance of summer heat in daily life is to remind people that the summer heat is gradually disappearing and the weather is turning from hot to cold, so we should pay attention to preventing "autumn dryness". There are many folk activities in summer, such as eating ducks, setting off river lanterns, opening fishing festivals, decocting medicinal tea and offering sacrifices to the land.