Is July 22, 2016 a hot summer?

Yes, the time of the Great Heat in 2016 is: July 22, 2016 17:30:10

The Great Heat is one of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar, and the sun is located at 120° of the ecliptic longitude. During the Great Heat, Chinese people have customs such as drinking fu tea, drying fu ginger, and burning fu incense.

The "Collection of the Seventy-Two Hours of the Monthly Order" says: "The great heat is in the middle of June. Heat means heat, and heat is divided into large and small. The small at the beginning of the month and the big in the middle of the month. Today The weather is very hot." Its climate characteristics are: "Dou Zhi Bing is the Great Heat, and the weather is much stronger than the Little Heat, so it is called the Great Heat." The Great Heat solar term coincides with the "mid-volt" in the "dog days". During the hottest period of the year, temperatures are the highest and crops grow the fastest. At the same time, droughts, floods, wind disasters and other meteorological disasters are most frequent in many areas.