Heat Wave in China: ‘High Temperature Oven Mode Unlocked’

Below are the top 5 most popular Sina Weibo microblog posts under the trending topic “High Temperature Oven Mode Begins/Unlocked, with over 220k reshares/forwards and 44k comments combined at time of translation…

From Sina Weibo:

@终南山贼: Today I saw a mean comment, don’t know where from: “Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai friends, the central heating you guys were begging for 8 months ago has finally been implemented.”

[Note: Central heating refers to city-wide heating that is found in cities in Northern China like in Beijing.]

From Sina Weibo:

@切腹菌: Entire City Heated to Death premiers with great fanfare in cities throughout the entire country.

From Sina Weibo:

@同学你该吃药了: Want to know how an electric fan can have the same effect as an air conditioner? Prepare some toothpaste, spread it over the fins of the fan, then spray a bit of water on them, and this way the air that the fan blows will have the feeling of being -10 degrees. I’ve personally tested this, it’s a technique that one must know during summary, so go ahead and try it.

From Sina Weibo:

@新浪视频: It’s hot! It’s really hot! Shanghai People’s Square Has Become Teppanyaki! Pork Belly [Bacon] 80% Cooked Within 10 Minutes: The highest temperature measured in Shanghai today was 39.1 degrees [Celsius]. At around 1 o’clock in the afternoon, this reporter performed an experiment at People’s Square: Placed a piece of pork belly [streaky pork] on the marble ground, and 30 seconds later the side that was on the ground had already changed color, with the whole thing about 80% done after 10 minutes. http://t.cn/zQivmHl #The Only Difference Between BBQ Meat and Me is Some Cumin# This is definitely not a rumor, dear!

studFrom Sina Weibo:

@超高校级的端洋气_寒宝: A medical school student told me that he finally understands what is “a life worse than death”… that being, when the morgue has air conditioning while his dorm doesn’t.