Recently, many places across the country have been hit by freezing rain, especially Hubei and Hunan, which have been the most severely affected, directly leading to the complete paralysis of all kinds of transportation. Many people may not have any intuitive experience of freezing rain. Let’s take a look at the balcony of a resident’s home in Wuhan: According to reports, this was taken after freezing rain occurred on January 23. You can see that the railings, benches, clothes, hangers, washing machines and other items on the balcony are covered and wrapped by thick layers of ice, as if it has become an "ice and snow world."
It is understood that freezing rain is a weather phenomenon seen in early winter or late winter and early spring every year, and it is a kind of disastrous weather.
When strong cold air moves southward and encounters warm and moist airflow, the cold air is inserted below the warm air like a wedge. The temperature near the ground drops sharply below zero, and the moist warm air is lifted up, forming clouds and causing rain.
Freezing rain is composed of a mixture of ice and water that freezes immediately upon collision with an object with a temperature below 0°C.
Raindrops below 0℃ can remain supercooled in air with a temperature slightly below 0℃. Their appearance is the same as ordinary raindrops. However, when they fall on an object with a temperature below 0℃, they will immediately freeze into a smooth and transparent layer of ice, which is called raindrops.
Severe rainstorms can break trees and telephone poles, interrupt communications and power supply, hinder highway and railway transportation, and threaten the safety of aircraft flights.
The areas with more freezing rain in China are:Guizhou Province, followed by Hunan Province, Jiangxi Province, Hubei Province, Henan Province, Anhui Province, Jiangsu Province and Shandong Province, Hebei Province, Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province, southern Liaoning Province and other places, among which there are more mountainous areas than plains and the most high mountains.
The Central Meteorological Observatory will continue to issue a freezing yellow warning at 06:00 on February 6:
It is expected that from 08:00 on February 6 to 08:00 on February 7, there will be freezing rain in parts of central and eastern Guizhou, most of Hunan, southeastern Hubei, mountainous areas in northwestern Jiangxi, mountainous areas in southern Anhui, and mountainous areas in western Zhejiang. The cumulative amount of freezing rain is 1 to 6mm, and the local area is about 10mm.
Real photos taken by netizens in Hubei
Real photos taken by netizens in Hubei