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It's another day for high temperature warnings!
On the morning of the 14th, China's weather once again issued a red warning of high temperature, and some areas of 10 provinces, autonomous regions and cities such as Shanghai, Shaanxi will exceed 40 ° C.
Immediately, the editor of Youth Linyi came out mischievously and released a video. The video shows that because of the high temperature weather, the ground temperature is too hot, resulting in snails that are usually slow to crawl at high speed. It was also accompanied by a snail's inner monologue: "If you don't run faster, I will be familiar..."
Great waterfall "lack of water"
Scenic areas are closed urgently
Guizhou Province, known as the "Cool Capital of China", has always been a good place for the people of the whole country to escape the summer. As a result, due to the depletion of the upstream river, the Great Waterfall Scenic Area, the core attraction of the national 5A-level Chishui Danxia Tourist Area, announced that it would stop operating on August 13.
According to the WeChat public account "Chishui City Culture and Tourism Bureau" news, Guizhou Jinzun Scenic Area Management Co., Ltd. issued the "Announcement on the Closure of Chishui Danxia Tourist Area • Great Waterfall Scenic Area" on August 12, saying that due to the continuous impact of extreme high temperature weather in chishui area, the upstream rivers and rivers of chishui Danxia tourist area and large waterfall scenic area were depleted, and after emergency research, the company decided that the chishui Danxia tourist area and the great waterfall would stop operating on August 13, 2022, and the opening time of the park would be notified separately.
According to Jimu News, the staff of the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Chishui City, Guizhou Province, said that the waterfall is a natural scenic spot, because of the weather reasons, the Chishui area has not rained for a long time, affecting the amount of water in the waterfall, considering the tourist experience of tourists, it was decided to temporarily close the park. "It's not completely cut off, but it's much smaller to the naked eye." The staff member said that the time for reopening the park has not yet been determined.
The customer service staff of the scenic spot said that the specific opening time depends on the weather conditions, "If there is water in the rain, the amount of water is sufficient to reopen the park." ”
The customer service staff said that if tourists book tickets, they can apply for a refund, and if they encounter a situation where they cannot be refunded, they can contact the customer service staff to handle it. In addition, there are a total of six scenic spots in chishui Danxia tourist area, except for the great waterfall scenic spot, the other five scenic spots are in normal business, and it is recommended that tourists can go to the rest of the scenic spots to play.
It is understood that chishui waterfall can be comparable to Huangguoshu Waterfall, the waterfall is 76 meters high, 80 meters wide, 8 meters higher than Huangguoshu Waterfall, only 1 meter narrower, is one of the best waterfall wonders in the mainland.
Chishui has been hit by high temperature weather for several days, and data from the Guizhou Meteorological Observatory show that on August 13, the temperature of Chishui reached 37.4 degrees, ranking first in the weather ranking of Guizhou Province.
On the 13th, the Chishui Meteorological Observatory issued a high temperature red warning, "In the next 24 hours, the maximum temperature of Baiyun, Long-term, Changsha, Shibao, Guandu and other townships in our city will rise to more than 40 °C, and relevant departments and units are requested to implement heat prevention and cooling measures in accordance with their duties." ”
On the morning of the 14th, the Central Meteorological Administration issued a red warning of high temperatures, and it is expected that during the day of August 14, the maximum temperature in Xinjiang's Turpan Basin and Southern Xinjiang Basin, south-central Shaanxi, southern Shanxi, southern Hebei, southern Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, central and eastern Sichuan, Chongqing, eastern Guizhou, northern Guangxi, and northern Guangdong will have a maximum temperature of 35 to 39 °C. Dragon fruit is "burned"
According to the Yangtze Evening News, on the morning of August 13, a farm manager of a dragon fruit planting greenhouse in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, pointed to the dragon fruit trees in the shed and said, "These branches should have been turquoise, but now they are yellow because all their soft tissues have been roasted at high temperatures!"
The staff member said that dragon fruit is usually hung 5 to 6 times a season (year), which lasts from mid-July to the end of December every year. The farm has planted more than 80 acres of dragon fruit, and in previous years, it is the season when dragon fruit is on the market in large numbers, and the tourists who come to the farm to pick dragon fruit are also batch after batch. But now the vast farm was empty, and there was not a single tourist.
At present, the reduction in the production of conservative dragon fruit has reached 80%. If it does not rain and cool down, the next fruit and harvest will be even more difficult to say.
Previously, Danyang Daily also reported that since June, due to the influence of high temperatures, the success rate of dragon fruit pollination is not high, coupled with the small temperature difference between day and night, the growth rate of the fruit has slowed down, and it is almost no longer growing!
The dragon fruit in the Danyang greenhouse has been growing for two months, but most of them weigh only about two or two, and the yield is greatly reduced. The farm staff said, "Dragon Ball Dragon Fruit normally weighs about one pound and two or two, but now it is only about seven or two, and this year's high temperature has a great impact on production." ”
As production has fallen, the price of dragon fruit this year has also skyrocketed, and the price of dragon fruit in the market has now risen by about 25%.
The world enters "hot" mode
This summer, not only is it hot in China, but many other parts of the world are also in "hot" mode.
According to CCTV News, much of the United States has been swept away by extreme heat waves. More than a third of the U.S. population lives under the alert of high temperatures.
"Britain is melting." Last month, the runway at Britain's largest air base was directly "heated", and the country, which has always been known for its cool summers, issued the first ever red warning of abnormal heat.
Under days of high temperatures and little rain, Europe is suffering the worst drought in 500 years. What is visible to the naked eye is that the water level of many rivers and lakes in Europe continues to decline, and even close to drying up. The water level in part of the Rhine River in Germany has now dropped to about 40 centimeters, and ordinary boats will not be able to pass, which will seriously affect water transport. The water level of Lake Garda, italy's largest lake, is also falling sharply, and large tidal flats have appeared on the lake's edge. The sight of shoes wet by the waves on the shore is gone.
More than 2,000 people have "died of heat" in Spain since July
According to Spanish media reports, the latest estimates from the Carlos III Institute of Health, which is affiliated with the Spanish Ministry of Health, show that 2,176 people have died in high temperatures in Spain from July to August 1, 2022.
Since July 10, the weather in Spain has gradually escalated, and the number of deaths due to high temperatures in a single day has gradually increased, reaching 184 people in the country on July 19.
On August 1, local time, a total of 34 provinces in Spain issued yellow or orange warnings for high temperature weather, and another 3 provinces issued storm weather warnings.
On the 1st, the maximum temperature in many provinces in central and southern Spain will reach 40 degrees Celsius, the maximum temperature in several provinces of the Extremadura region in the west of the country can reach 42 degrees Celsius, and the maximum temperature in many provinces, including the capital Madrid, will be above 35 degrees Celsius.
Spain, which has been hit by the heat this summer, is currently experiencing a historic drought. Spain's National Meteorological Agency revealed that between October 1 last year and July 26 this year, the country's cumulative rainfall per square meter decreased by about 26% compared with the same period in previous years.
The Arctic can already wear short sleeves
What are the effects of extreme heat weather? Global warming has also affected the Antarctic and the Arctic. Glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic are also melting at an accelerated rate.
In July, temperatures in the Arctic Circle soared to 32.5 degrees Celsius. The ice sheet covering Greenland, the world's largest island, is also melting at an accelerated rate. Scientists in the Arctic even played ice volleyball in short-sleeved shorts.
In the picture, although cnn is standing in Greenland with his back to ice and snow, he is wearing a thin T-shirt and also said: Weather like today is warm enough to wear short sleeves.
Chief Forecaster, National Climate Center:
Global warming High temperature heat waves may become the new normal
As of August 13, the Central Meteorological Observatory has issued a high temperature warning for 24 consecutive days. This marks the strongest stage to date of a regional high temperature weather process that has continued to affect many parts of the southern part of the continent since June.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Chen Lijuan, chief forecaster of the National Climate Center, said that the duration of this year's regional high temperature process will exceed 62 days in 2013, becoming the longest high temperature process since 1961.
Chen Lijuan said that the occurrence of high temperature heat wave events in summer is normal from the perspective of climate status. But the duration, intensity and scope of the heatwave this summer have reached very strong levels. According to the National Climate Center's monitoring and later forecasts, the rare high temperature weather on the mainland since June this year is likely to reach the strongest high temperature event since 1961, when there was a complete meteorological record.
Chen Lijuan analyzed that from the most intuitive factor affecting temperature - atmospheric circulation characteristics, this year's western Pacific subtropical high pressure is abnormally strong and westward, while its south and north borders are expanded, the scope is very large. "High temperatures like this year's may be more frequent in the summer months to come." Chen Lijuan said that in the context of climate change, high temperature heat wave events will become a norm. In addition, this year's hot weather starts early, ends late, and lasts for a long time, and this feature may become more and more pronounced in the future.
Not only is the mainland high temperature frequent, since the beginning of summer, there have been high temperature heat wave events in many places in the northern hemisphere, and many cities in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and other countries have refreshed the high temperature record. According to the sixth assessment report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global warming in the last 50 years is occurring at a rate unprecedented in the past 2000, and the instability of the climate system has increased. Since the beginning of the 21st century, summer heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere have become increasingly frequent.