What season is the Great Heat? Is the Great Heat of 2019 the hottest time of the year?

What season is the Great Heat? Is the Great Heat of 2019 the hottest time of the year?
Introduction: There are solar terms in every season, and different solar terms represent different meanings. So what season is the Great Heat? Is the Great Heat in 2019 the hottest time of the year? Shui Mo Xiansheng website has carefully compiled detailed information about the sixth lunar month of 2019. If you want to know about the auspicious and inauspicious days in the sixth lunar month, please come to Shui Mo Xiansheng website!

What season is the Great Heat?

The time of Great Heat happens to be in midsummer. The arrival of Great Heat indicates that the highest temperature of the year will also come. Therefore, during the Great Heat solar term, you must pay attention to your health and prevent heatstroke.
When the sun reaches 120° of the ecliptic longitude, it is the "Great Heat" solar term.
"Great Heat" and "Minor Heat" are both festivals that reflect the degree of heat in summer. "Great Heat" means extreme heat.
"Collected Explanations of the 72 Seasonal Changes" states: "In the middle of June, ... heat is divided into small and large heat. The beginning of the month is small, the middle of the month is large, and the heat is still large now." This is around the "middle of the dog days", when most parts of the country enter the hottest period of the year and it is also the fastest growing period for warmth-loving crops. However, natural disasters such as drought, flood, and typhoons occur frequently, and the tasks of drought resistance, flood drainage, typhoon prevention, and field management are very heavy.
The date of the Great Heat in 2019 is: July 23, 2019 10:49:50, Tuesday (June 21st of the Year of the Pig, 36 days away from the Great Heat in 2019) The Great Heat is one of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar, and the sun is at 120° of the ecliptic longitude. During the Great Heat period, Chinese people have the customs of drinking Fu tea, drying Fu ginger, burning Fu incense, and drinking mutton soup.

Is the Great Heat of 2019 the hottest time of the year?

Yes, the Great Heat of 2019 is the hottest time of the year.
As we enter the Great Heat, this round of high temperatures will last for a long time, cover a wide range, be highly humid, and make people feel stuffy. It will be the largest-scale high temperature weather process in the south this year. On the day of Great Heat, rotten grass turns into fireflies. Five days later, the soil is moist and hot. Five days later, heavy rain comes.
Do: Take a nap, eat light food, cool down and avoid taking a cold shower. Stay up late and go out at noon.
The Great Heat is one of the 24 solar terms, which falls around the middle of the three hottest days. It is the hottest period of the year with the highest temperature. The fact that the Great Heat is the hottest during this period is related to the time it takes for the sun to radiate heat and increase temperature.
Solar radiation warms the earth's surface; ground radiation warms the atmosphere. It takes time for both links to reach their maximum values, so the occurrence of the highest atmospheric temperature will be delayed. Starting from the summer solstice, the earth's surface absorbs heat and the temperature continues to rise. By the time of the Great Heat, the temperature has reached its highest point.

Analysis of the three signs of the Great Heat:

In ancient my country, the Great Heat was divided into three phases: "The first phase is when rotten grass turns into fireflies; the second phase is when the soil becomes moist and the heat is suppressed; the third phase is when heavy rains come."
There are two types of fireflies, aquatic and terrestrial. Terrestrial fireflies lay eggs on dead grass, and during the Great Heat, the fireflies eggs hatch. Therefore, the ancients believed that fireflies were transformed from rotten grass. The second sign is that the weather starts to become hot and humid, and the land is also very humid. The third sign is that there will often be heavy thunderstorms. After the heavy rain, the heat and humidity will be reduced, and the weather will begin to transition to the Beginning of Autumn.
The Great Heat falls around the middle of the dog days of summer, when most parts of the country enter the hottest period of the year, with temperatures often reaching 40°C and little temperature difference across the country.
According to the data of "China's Geographical Climate Data from 1971 to 2000", in the 30-year extreme maximum temperature statistics, the extreme maximum temperature in July in some provinces and regions occurred in late July, while the extreme maximum temperature in August in most provinces and regions occurred in early August, which happened to be the period of the Great Heat.

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