Recently, a wide range of rain and snow weather frequently harassed the central and eastern parts of the mainland, after more snow in the north, many provinces in the south also sprinkled snowflakes, Hunan and other places also appeared extraordinarily heavy snow, Anhui, Hunan local snow depth of more than 30 cm, as the snow in late February, this snow can be described as very fierce. Monitoring data from the National Climate Center of the China Meteorological Administration also show that the average precipitation in the country from February 1 to 22 was 24.5 mm, which was 1.1 times more than the same period of the year, and the largest in the same period of history since the start of statistics in 1961. Gansu and Guangxi have the most precipitation in the same period of history, Yunnan is the second most, and Hunan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Hainan and Sichuan are the third most.
Snow in Shaoyang, Hunan
But in fact, since February, not only China has had a lot of rain and snow, but also many places in the northern hemisphere have also been hit by heavy rain and snow – Japan, located east of the mainland, has also recently suffered extreme snowfall. According to the monitoring data of the Japan Meteorological Agency, in the early morning of February 24, local time, the depth of snow in many places in the northern part of Honshu Island in Japan generally reached 200-200 cm, especially at Tsuna Station in Niigata Prefecture, the observation snow depth reached 419 cm!
For Tsunan Station, this is a record-breaking depth of snow. According to the Observations of the Japan Meteorological Agency, the previous snow depth record in Tsunan was 416 centimeters in February 2006, and the deep snow accumulation of 419 centimeters today has refreshed the local snow depth record, of course, this is not the highest snow depth record in Japan, such as the sour soup station in Aomori Prefecture, which once had a terrible snow accumulation of more than 500 centimeters.
Judging from the videos taken by local netizens, the local snow in Jinnan is full of mountains and valleys, whether it is cars or houses, basically everything is covered under the snow several meters deep.
Some netizens have to ask: Will such a big snow in Japan fall to China? In fact, the Japanese island of Honshu is on the side of the Sea of Japan, and it can snow a lot every winter, and it is not a problem to accumulate snow for two or three meters throughout the winter, so it is called a "heavy snow zone". Most of the snow here is cold drift snow, that is, the snow formed by the cold air mass after contacting the water surface, on the side of the Japanese island of Honshu in Japan, it is a good terrain environment for the formation of cold flow snow, for example, on February 23, you can see a large number of flocculent cold flow clouds on the Japanese sea, the Japanese "heavy snow zone" is engulfed by dense cold flow clouds, and the record-breaking snow depth of Tsuna is formed under a large amount of cold flow snow.
Every year there is a lot of cold drift snow, why did it break the record this year? In fact, this is to talk about the special circulation pattern from January to February this year, in the mainland, cold air continues to penetrate + a wide range of rain and snow brought a strong humid and cold February, while in Japan, the main force of the cold wave pouring into the Pacific Ocean in Eurasia continues to pass through Japan, and eventually transforms into a large amount of cold flow snow - for example, from February 18, a strong cold air gradually freezes through the central and eastern parts of the continent, and at the same time as the local cold wave weather occurs, a large part of the cold air mass is dumped near Japan, which eventually leads to a local record-breaking blizzard.