Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Before the Spring Festival, there will be continuous heavy rain and snow in the central and eastern regions.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Yao.
As the Spring Festival approaches, all localities will usher in the peak of the Spring Festival homecoming. According to the forecast of the ** Meteorological Observatory, from January 31 to February 5, there will be a wide range of continuous rain, snow and freezing weather in the central and eastern regions, and 10 provinces will have heavy snowfall or heavy snowfall, and the snowfall in Yulu and Hubei is extreme.
Affected by the superposition of the southern and northern branch troughs, the southwesterly warm and humid airflow brought widespread rain and snow to the north. According to meteorological experts, this process has the characteristics of wide rain and snow coverage, long duration, large range of freezing rain, and extreme cumulative precipitation in some areas.
Judging from the forecast, the rain and snow process lasting up to 6 days basically covers the entire central and eastern regions, with snowfall mainly in Huanghuai and its northern areas, and rain turning to sleet or snow in Jianghan, western Jianghuai, western Hunan, and eastern Guizhou.
This is likely to be the most extensive precipitation since the beginning of winter, surpassing the rain and snow in the south around January 20, and will also be more widespread and snowy than the cold wave rain and snow in mid-December last year. * Sun Jun, chief forecaster of the Meteorological Observatory, said that Henan, Shandong, Hubei and southern Hebei have a large amount of snowfall, which is extreme compared with the same period in history.
Sun Jun said that the precipitation phase in this process is relatively complex, with rain, snow, sleet, and freezing rain in some places. It is expected that from February 1 to 4, freezing rain will occur in parts of southern Henan, Hubei, northern Anhui, central and northern Hunan, and eastern Guizhou. However, on the whole, the duration, low temperature intensity and freezing range of the rain and snow process are not as good as those of the low temperature rain and snow freezing process in southern China in early 2008.
In the next 10 days, the number of precipitation days in Huanghuai and southern China will reach 6 to 9 days, and the cumulative precipitation will be abnormally high. The temperature in the southeast of Northwest China, Huanghuai, Jianghan, and the western part of Jiangnan will be 1 to 3 lower than that of the same period in normal years, and the temperature in most other parts of the central and eastern regions will be close to normal or slightly higher.
It is the Spring Festival, rain, snow and freezing weather will have a great impact on roads, railways, aviation, etc., experts suggest that all localities should make various emergency preparations in advance.
A new situation in this year's Spring Festival is the increase in self-driving trips, which will hit a record high. Wang Lijuan, a research-level senior engineer at the Public Meteorological Service Center of the China Meteorological Administration, said that due to the impact of this process, some sections of highways in many places may have ice and snow on the road, and the risk of traffic meteorological disasters is high, and traffic congestion or blockage is prone to occur. It is recommended that the public should take measures to protect themselves from the cold and keep warm, and to be vigilant when driving vehicles, so as to prevent the adverse effects of snow, ice, and slippery roads on traffic.
Wang Lijuan also reminded that it is expected that from February 1 to 5, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Shandong, Guizhou and other places will have more than 20 mm of wire icing, and the power department needs to carry out snow removal and de-icing in time to ensure the stability and safety of electricity. (Xinhuanet).