Since August, Chengdu's cumulative rainfall has a total rainfall of only 17.1 mm, and the highest temperature in Rongcheng in the next three days can reach 44 ° C.

As of 16:00 today (21st), Sichuan has a high temperature again. Yibin Gao County is 43.5 ° C, Chengdu Jianyang 43.4 ° C, and Zigong 43.4 ° C, all of which break the historical record of local observations. At 16:05, Chengdu Wenjiang was 38.5 ° C, which tied the historical record of observation.

Not only that, since August, the distribution of rainfalls across the country is very uneven, and rainfalls in Jiangnan and other places have been severe. The rainfall in large areas has only a dozen or twenty mm. Among them, Chengdu's cumulative rainfall is only 17.1 mm, and the number of precipitation without precipitation is 15 days. Relatively speaking, there are more rainfall in the north. In the top ten of the provincial cities, seven are all cities in the north. The rainfall in Xining in Qinghai is 177.5 mm.

▲ Cumulative rainfall map is based on the Central Meteorological Observatory

In the case of high temperature and rain, the Sichuan Meteorological Observatory released the forest forecast of the Forest Grassland Fire Insurance Meteorological Level: It is expected that the high temperature weather in the basin will continue at 20:00 on August 21st. When it comes to 39 to 42 ° C or above, there are decentralized showers or thunderstorms along the mountains and climbing areas in the west of the basin. Forest fire risk meteorological grades in most places in the basin are 4 to 5.

In the next three days, Chengdu will continue at high temperature. Chengdu Meteorological Observatory forecast: In the next three days, the city is cloudy, and there are many dispersion or thunderstorms in the western mountainous areas. The highest temperature will reach 43, 44 ° C. Remind citizen friends to pay attention to heatstroke and cool down, and try not travel as possible during high temperature hours.

Red Star News reporter Dai Jiajia

Edit Tan Wangyu

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