Tracking Storms

The sky has been clear for over a week. At night, for the first time this year, is so clear at night that one can see some of the brightest stars and the clean edges of the moon. Is it the heat that has cleaned up Shanghai's air? It has been miserably hot most days in July and I'm told by long-time residents to expect about six more weeks of it. I'll have to take their word for it because the weather reports in China seem to be wildly inaccurate.

Even the international weather sites, like Yahoo Weather and the Weather Channel, are nearly useless when trying to figure out what to expect in Shanghai. In Peavine USA I could look at the online weather report from the local TV stations and see a radar image so detailed that I could easily track a storm approaching my section of the metropolis. If ones searches for a radar image of Shanghai you'd be lucky to find a map that covered an area smaller than the Asia/Pacific. In the USA you can track clouds. In Shanghai you can track typhoons.