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So, how’s your Plum Rain season shaping up so far? While Shanghaiist had the good fortune of ducking most of it back home in the States, the word on the street (by "street" we mean our trusty MSN messenger) is that it’s been pretty brutal! Well, fret not, relief is on the way ... maybe. According to the always “no-so-reliable” Shanghai Meteorological Service, the deceptively sweet sounding, but “god do I f@$#ing hate it” Plum Rain belt is still straddling the Yangtze Delta and pushing southward, due to arrive in our lovely city’s airspace later tomorrow or the day after, with chances of scattered thunder storms and a possible drop in temperature (to a cool low 30ish range -- time to break out the turtle necks). This could all mark the end of this iteration of the dreaded Plum Rain season. Whew, about time! Unless of course the weatherman is wrong, in which case the wretched heat/humidity continue and we’ve just wasted a bunch of your time. But we do continue to appreciate your readership, as always.

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So, the Plum Rain season has arrived. At first, Shanghaiist guessed that the onset of wet weather was deliberately brought about by the government. (Yeah, they can do that. How fitting that a city inundated with knock-offs is also susceptible to the occasional shower of fake rain?). We thought that the precipitation might have been perfectly timed to coincide with the beginning of the SCO Summit, to ensure that Shanghai residents follow the orders they’ve been given to keep their windows shut. (Residents of our particular apartment complex, by the way, have been ordered to close any windows that look down on the Yan’an Lu Expressway. Yeah, like we really wanted to go and throw those windows open anyway …).

Shakespeare used this biting line to refer to the brain of a dim-witted character in As You Like It. But it would also fit the bill if you were describing Shanghai's present weather.