The picture shows the sea ice in Liaodong Bay. Courtesy of the North Sea Marine Forecast Observatory of the Ministry of Natural Resources.
According to the monitoring data released by the Beihai Marine Forecast Observatory of the Ministry of Natural Resources of China on the 6th, the sea ice area of Liaodong Bay reached 20,962 square kilometers on the same day, covering 685% of the sea surface of Liaodong Bay. The Beihai Regional Marine Forecast Observatory of the Ministry of Natural Resources issued a yellow alert for sea ice in Liaodong Bay at 16 o'clock on the same day, which is the first yellow warning for sea ice issued by China this winter.
Sea ice is one of the most serious marine natural disasters in northern China in winter, which has affected shipping, marine aquaculture, and the lives of island residents to varying degrees. Liaodong Bay is one of the three major bays in the Bohai Sea in China, and it is also the place with the lowest water temperature and the heaviest ice situation in China's coastal waters in winter, with a large number of fixed ice and floating ice appearing every year.
According to monitoring, on the 6th, the outer edge of the floating ice in Liaodong Bay was 88 nautical miles offshore, and the sea ice area reached 20,962 square kilometers, an increase of 2,825 square kilometers from the previous day. The Beihai Regional Marine Forecast Observatory of the Ministry of Natural Resources issued a yellow alert for sea ice in Liaodong Bay in accordance with the Marine Emergency Implementation Plan of the Beihai Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources, which is also the first time since 2016 that a yellow alert for sea ice has been issued in Liaodong Bay.
Li Ge, chief forecaster of the North Sea Marine Forecast of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said in an interview with reporters on the same day that since January 22 this year, 15 consecutive blue warnings for sea ice in Liaodong Bay have been issued, and the distribution area of sea ice in Liaodong Bay has basically reached the peak this winter. It is expected that in the next three days, the ice conditions in Liaodong Bay and the northern Yellow Sea will generally show a trend of first maintaining and then easing, and the sea ice at the bottom of Liaodong Bay will continue to drift to the deep-water area.
The Beihai Marine Forecast Observatory of the Ministry of Natural Resources reminds the relevant departments and the public at all levels of coastal aquaculture, fishery and fishing, marine transportation, oil exploitation, ports and wharves and other offshore construction operations to pay close attention to local ice changes and sea ice warning information, and do a good job in anti-icing and anti-icing work; Island residents are requested to make reserves of materials for life and production in advance.
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