(Observer Network News) During the mainland exercise, the people of Taiwan are worried... According to the Eastern Sen News Network reported today (8th), yesterday, when someone was fishing on the seashore in Nantian, Daren Township, Taitung County, he found that "mushroom-shaped clouds" appeared in the sky, and the surrounding area also showed a golden glittering and fiery red color, thinking that the mainland had launched a missile, and was frightened to take pictures and seek verification. Subsequently, some meteorological experts on the island explained that this was a natural phenomenon, not a "mushroom cloud" produced by the explosion.
According to the report, at more than 5 o'clock in the morning yesterday, Mr. Lin was fishing on the nantian seashore, looking south to the east of the screen, and saw this mushroom-shaped cloud, and the direction of the cloud was exactly the direction of the Jiupeng base of the Taiwan Army, and he also thought that there was an accident at the Jiupeng base, "I saw that I was scared at the first time, but I didn't hear the noise and felt strange", so Mr. Lin quickly filmed this scene and posted it on social media.
Another angler also saw this scene, and also thought it was a missile, "Seeing the shape of this cloud, it will really scare people, especially if we have been soldiers, it will still be a little sensitive, this cloud is simply 'nuclear bomb level'." ”
Yesterday afternoon, a number of Taiwan media reported the news was also shocked, the United News Network said that "a glance at the past is frightened";
The green media "Sanli News" was also puzzled, "A little weird, what's going on?" ”
According to the report, after Mr. Lin posted the photo on Facebook, his comment area also showed a windy atmosphere, "Is the nuclear bomb exploding", "The Dongfeng missile is coming", "100% is like a nuclear explosion".
Today, Huang Jiamei, director of the Taitung Meteorological Department, publicly responded that this is anvil cloud plus mushroom-shaped clouds, and anvil clouds usually appear frequently in the summer, which is a manifestation of Cumulonimbus clouds, representing the vigorous development of convection in the air. Because this 2 days in the South China Sea there is a large and low pressure belt in the south, the water vapor brought in is very strong, coupled with the southeast windward surface is relatively unstable, the updraft is strong, so the upper layer will appear anvil-like cloud type, strong updraft and then to the top, so there is a mushroom-like cloud above, the whole process may be 10 minutes to half an hour will develop.
As for why it will show a fiery red color, Huang Jiamei said that because the development direction is just in the southwest, the sun comes out in the east in the morning, because there are many layers of vortexes plus water vapor full, after the reflection and refraction of sunlight, the uppermost water vapor of the cloud refracts, it will show a fiery red or golden shimmering color, not a nuclear bomb explosion or missile, please rest assured.
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