hot or not?

it has been HOT here...like the i-can't-breathe, everybody-on-my-commute-is-sweaty-ick kind of hot (okay, i cheat and take taxi when i can't take handle)...yet the official weather reports have been constantly 39 point something C (roughly 100+ F, not counting the humidity) when it most definitely feels hotter. weird right. we've since learned the good old chinarese g-o-v doesn't like to report official temperatures higher than 39.999999999 C. we wouldn't want anyone to panic that it's too hot, now would we.