What does the weather mean? Maybe it's a full harvest, or an unknown risk, or it's a long-lasting companion ......There are a thousand different answers for a thousand professions. In 2024, China Meteorology will open the column "I Deal with the Weather" to explore the stories between those familiar and unfamiliar occupations and the weather, and share the world in the cloudy and warm weather. Sunrise, sea of clouds, snow-capped mountains, streams, ......In Sichuan, which straddles five major geomorphological units, such views are not difficult to find, but it is not easy to seize the moment to freeze the most beautiful moments of these landscapes.
There is a community in Sichuan called "Looking at the Snow Mountains in Chengdu", which has grown from a few people to thousands in the past 10 years. The members of the community come from all walks of life, and are committed to photographing the snow mountains**, just to reproduce the grand scene of Du Fu's "window containing a thousand autumn snow in Xiling", and "post-70s" photographer Yang Tao is one of them. 
Yang Tao was filmed in Jiajin Mountain.
Yang Tao is originally from Ya'an, Sichuan, and now lives in Chengdu. In his spare time, he will take the photography equipment of "long guns and short guns" to run all over Sichuan and neighboring provinces to capture the most beautiful "figures" of major snow-capped mountains. Photographing different snow-capped mountains** is a great sense of achievement! Yang Tao's interest in photographic activities in snow-capped mountains began with his father and hometown. Yang's father used to work in a photo studio, which had a profound impact on Yang Tao's choice of photography, and his preference for natural scenery photography such as snow-capped mountains was related to Yang Tao's hometown. "When I was a child, whether I was going out or going to school, my family would often tell me to bring an umbrella. Yang Tao said that Ya'an is famous"Rain City".It rained twice for three days. Living and studying in the "Rain City", on the one hand, Yang Tao gradually had many questions about the weather. "When will it rain? When to stop? ”On the other hand, Yang Tao also slowly discovered the beauty of various meteorological landscapes in this confusion. 
Sichuan Ya'an Jiajinshan Highway Pass Figure Yang Tao.
As a child, he climbed almost every mountain around Ya'an. When I was a child, I had little access to weather forecasts, and the locals often relied on mountain clouds to perceive weather changes. 'Watching the mountains' is a folk way to forecast weather in the local area. "'There is no rain on the mountain, no rain on the mountain, no waist on the mountain. It is a local proverb that has been circulated in Ya'an for a long time, referring to the Zhougong Mountain in the east of his hometown, even if it is rainy and foggy, but it does not reach the top of the mountain, it will not rain, if the clouds and mist are on the top of the mountain, it will inevitably be drizzling. "For theseFolk proverbs, Yang Tao has a deep memory.
When I was a child, I often watched the sunny and rainy Zhougong Mountain, and I went back after workThere's already an extra weather radar there, I was very happy. "Yang after workTao's concern for the weather has not diminished in the slightest. Now photographing the snow-capped mountains is inseparable from the 'guidance' of meteorological forecasts. Yang Tao showed a picture of Ya'an Jiajin Mountain looking west at the peaks of Siguniang Mountain. The names and heights of many snow-capped mountains are indicated. He introduced that if the weather is clear enough, many beautiful peaks can be seen in Ya'an, Sichuan, butIn addition to the accumulation of daily experience and the choice of angles, the premise of photographing these peaks also includes the prediction of meteorological conditions
Chengdu Longquan Mountain overlooks the peaks of western Sichuan Figure Yang Tao.
Yang Tao felt deeply".The development of meteorology is changing with each passing day, and weather forecasts are becoming more and more accurate”。Through self-study, he was able toUnderstand satellite imageryand predict the generation of various meteorological landscapes according to cloud images. From the distribution of low, medium, and high clouds, to aerosol concentrations, to temperature, humidity, and ** temperature, he will pay attention. "I once was going to the top of a mountain to photograph a sea of clouds, and when I got to the bottom of the mountain, it was cloudy, and everyone advised me not to go. In the end, Yang Tao chose to become one"The Lonely BraveThe next day, I photographed the churning of the sea of clouds and the undulating scenes of the mountains in western Sichuan. Today, Yang Tao and his family live in Chengdu, and this "park city under the snow mountain" provides him with a natural help to shoot the snow mountain. 
In Shuangliu District, Chengdu, the airport cloud looks at the sister peak of Siguniang Mountain.
Chengdu Plain is located in the Sichuan Basin, when the weather is fine, Longmen Mountain, Qionglai Mountain, Daxue Mountain and other first-line peaks will be displayed in front of you, reproducing the poetic beauty of 'the window contains a thousand autumn snow in Xiling'. ”Every time he plans to photograph the snowy mountains, he researches the weather changes in advance。If he plans to photograph snow-capped mountains in the urban area of Chengdu, he will pay special attention to the release of the Chengdu Meteorological Observatory"Chengdu Snow Mountain Forecast"."This forecast will directly tell the public whether the snow-capped mountains will be visible tomorrow. "Compared with analyzing and studying the cloud map in advance, it is easier to look at the "Chengdu Snow Mountain Forecast". At the end of the interview, Yang Tao told reporters that it was not just about shooting snow mountainsAll photographers should go and know the weather, because the weather is never transferred by people's will, to find the right angle, place to shoot satisfactory **, you mustLearn to be friends with the weather and rely on weather forecasts and weather information to make photography easier
January 26, 2024 second page headline.
Produced by China Meteorological NewsCurated:Wu Hui Zhang HongweiAuthor:Song Xiao, liberal artsEdit:Seven sevenBu Yu Jia JingxiAudit:Duan Haoshu