Is it included?

 
I was thrown into despair when I heard that today was supposed to be a "summer day," meaning that the maximum temperature would be 25 degrees Celsius, but in reality, it only got up to about 23 degrees Celsius. In fact, it only got up to about 23 degrees Celsius around me.

Even so, I've been lambasted for calling it a "summer day" when it's over 25 degrees Celsius. In the real summer, it's supposed to be around 40 degrees Celsius. Around me.

Come to think of it, the highest temperature above 25 degrees Celsius is called a summer day, above 30 degrees Celsius is called a midsummer day, and above 35 degrees Celsius is called a heat wave day. I used to think that summer days, midsummer days, and heat wave days were separate things, but according to this definition, midsummer days are included in summer days, and heat wave days are included in summer days and midsummer days. Highball and chuhai are not separate, but chuhai is a substitute for highball whisky with shochu (so chuhai is included in highball).

I wondered how much hotter it had gotten in recent years, and found this article.

Annual number of summer days, midsummer days, extremely hot days, and tropical nights in the district

This PDF came up in a direct search, but from the URL, it looks like "in the ward" means "Chiyoda Ward. I don't live in Chiyoda Ward, but I'm sure it's the same everywhere in the 23 wards.

This is only up to 2019, but in 2019, there were 126 summer days, 55 midsummer days, and 12 extremely hot days.

That's 126 summer days!

Over 1/3 of the year is summer? One out of every three days is summer?

That's amazing...

By the way, in 1920, there were 95 summer days, 38 midsummer days, and 0 extremely hot days. Japan has a beautiful climate.

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