What will be the impact of rainfall at Zhongshan Station in Antarctica?Expert analysis

Mondo Social Updated on 2024-01-31

Recently, there has been a rare weather phenomenon in Antarctica, and light rain has fallen in the Zhongshan Station area.

Antarctic Zhongshan Station expedition team memberWang CaijunOn December 4, 2023, the outdoor temperature of Zhongshan Station in Antarctica was 36. It was drizzling outside, and weather conditions like this were rare in history.

The localized rainfall in Antarctica was shorter, lasting less than two hours. It is understood that the highest temperature of the day near Zhongshan Station exceeded 5, and there was snowfall on the 3rd, and the rain on the night of the 4th was related to the recent high temperature.

Antarctic Zhongshan Station is located at 69 degrees 22 minutes south latitude, located in the Antarctic Circle, according to the "Snow Dragon" shipboard meteorological support personnel, rainfall in the Antarctic Circle is rare, this local rainfall, is indeed very rare.

Seals, penguins and other animals live in Antarctica, and these animals are actually adapted to the cold natural environment of the region. It is understood that the rainfall in the Zhongshan Station area of Antarctica has also had an impact on the creatures of Antarctica.

Ding Minghu, director of the Institute of Global Change and Polar Research, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences:This Antarctic rain did not only occur at Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, according to investigations, freezing rain events also occurred at Davis Station in Australia, next to Zhongshan Station in Antarctica. Why does freezing rain occur?Because the ground in Antarctica is cold, rain freezes when it falls on the ground. If this rain falls on the baby penguins, their feathers are not waterproof, which can cause frostbite in the baby penguins.

*: CCTV Finance & Economics.

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