Oooh nooooooo. You thought yesterday and today were hot? Looks like this crappy, terrible, face melting weather is going to stay with us for another five days. The Shanghai Meterological Bureau said that we could expect the same heat, thunder and rain through the weekend and into Monday of next week. Ugh. Well, there's not much we can do except take cold showers, remember to keep hydrated, stay indoors as much as possible and hope that the Shanghai Meterological Bureau is as on point this time as it was about Typhoon Morakot's imminent arrival. Source: Shanghai Daily more ›

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We were out and about in the rain all of yesterday and had no idea a "mega thunderstorm" was brewing out there in another part of town and people were getting killed in it. According to Xinhua, this was a "once-in-a-century thunderstorm":

A migrant worker was crushed to death and 14 were injured after a thunderstorm hit part of Shanghai on Saturday afternoon, municipal flood authorities said. more ›