According to Shanghai Daily, Saturday was the hottest July 5 that Shanghai has experienced in the 135 years that meteorological records have been kept in the city. 38.8 degrees (that’s 101.8 Fahrenheit, for my American friends). Same temperature on Sunday. Probably, the temperature was even higher (the local meteorological bureau likes to keep things under 40 – more on that topic during the Olympics). Anyway, whatever the temperature, one must ask: How hot was it?
According to one friend (who happens to work in the refrigeration industry!), it was this hot …
It was just at 3:30 this afternoon when I walked into my study at home and the large glass window pane exploded, a pronounced, deep bang and the glass shivered into thousands of crackles, like cicada’s wings, yet in the frame. I now see that this double-paned and the outside is intact, just the inside fractured like frost.
He continues …
The air-conditioning was on at 25C [77 Fahrenheit], the outside above 38C, so it was either the temperature difference or the frame was affected by the heat.
I am disappointed that you did not use this opportunity to complain about cheap Chinese window frames.
.. or it was cheap glass? wouldn’t surprise me.