The drought situation in China continues to develop. As of February 20, 53.36 million mu of arable land in China had been affected by drought, 11.88 million people and 8.05 million large livestock had difficulty drinking water due to drought. The picture shows two geese wandering in a dry pond in Jibaidan Village, Lengquan Town, Mengzi County, Mengzi County, Yunnan Province. Photographed by Xue Yun, China News Social Development
The latest monitoring by the National Climate Center shows that at present, the drought has spread to 15 provinces and regions in China, including Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, Qinghai, Chongqing, Gansu, Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Hainan. Some parts of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, Qinghai and other five provinces and regions are suffering from severe drought. The average precipitation of Yunnan Province is 109.2 mm, 51% less than that in the same period of the year, which is the lowest in the same period of history since 1951.
Since the autumn of 2009, severe drought has occurred in most parts of southwest China and parts of Jiangnan and South China, which has seriously affected the life and production of local people. According to the latest drought monitoring by the National Climate Center, as of February 22, there were mild meteorological droughts in most parts of southwest China, eastern and southern Qinghai, southern Gansu, southern Shaanxi, western Hubei, northwestern Hunan and northwestern Guangxi, and mild droughts in Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Hainan.
The meteorological drought in most parts of Yunnan, Guizhou, central and southern Sichuan, southeast Tibet, eastern Qinghai, southwest Gansu, northwest Guangxi, northwest Hunan, southwest Hubei, and southeast Chongqing has reached above medium level, of which the central north of Yunnan, northeast and southwest Guizhou, southern Sichuan, and local areas in Tibet and Qinghai are of severe drought.
Chen Yu, a senior engineer of the Climate Application and Service Office of the National Climate Center, said in an interview with reporters on the 23rd that from September 21, 2009 to February 22, 2010, the temperature in most parts of Yunnan was 1~2 ℃ higher than that in the same period of the year, the precipitation in the north was 30~50% less, and in the middle and south was 5~80% less.
Experts from the National Climate Center said that it is expected that there will be no significant precipitation in most of Yunnan and southern Sichuan in the next 10 days, and the drought will continue and develop. From the 23rd to the 28th, there was no obvious precipitation in most of the dry areas in Guizhou and Sichuan basins, and the drought will continue or develop. After the 28th, the precipitation in the arid areas of Guizhou and Sichuan Basin will increase, which is beneficial to alleviate the drought. (Author: Ruan Yulin Source: China News Network)
