Don't forget your umbrella

Hope you all enjoyed possibly Shanghai's last beam of sunlight in June on Monday.

on Tuesday, the city was covered by gray clouds and heavy to torrential rains are expected between Tuesday and Wednesday morning, which may affect traffic.

The weather bureau forecasts thunder, lightning and downpours of up to 70 millimeters — up to 30 in a single hour — in some areas.

Wednesday will be dry and overcast to cloudy which will last through Friday, when the plum rain belt begins moving south from Anhui and Jiangsu provinces.

Patchy showers will return late Saturday and run through the weekend.

The mercury will hover between 22 and 30 degrees Celsius from Wednesday to Sunday.

This plum rain season may have more rain than normal. Data shows that so far the benchmark Xujiahui weather station has recorded more than 140 millimeters of plum rain — already more than half the seasonal normal.