China release 丨 August the average number of high temperature days in the country is the most in history since 1961

China Net, September 16 (Reporter Peng Yao) The Emergency Management Department held a September routine press conference on the 16th. According to Shen Zhanli, a spokesman for the emergency management department and director of the Journalism and Propaganda Department, the Emergency Management Department, together with the relevant member units of the National Disaster Reduction Commission, conducted a discuss analysis of the national natural disasters in August. In August, natural disasters across the country were mainly drought and flood disasters. Wind hail, typhoons, earthquakes, geological disasters, and forest fires also occurred to varying degrees. Various natural disasters caused a total of 4.1859 million people. They disappeared 94 people due to disasters and 42.97 billion yuan in direct economic losses.

In August, the national natural disasters mainly showed the following characteristics: the national average high temperature number of days has the largest period since 1961, especially in the southern region, the scope of high temperature in the southern region is wide and extremely extreme, and severe summer drought occurred in the Yangtze River Basin. The national rainfall is "north and south", the flood conditions of the Greater River are generally stable, and the northern parts are super police super protection. A total of five regional strong convective weather in the country appeared, which was significantly reduced from the same period in recent years, but the lightning strike incident was more prominent. Typhoon generation and landing are relatively small. Typhoon No. 7 "Mulan" and Typhoon No. 9 "saddle" landing in the coastal area of ​​Guangdong is conducive to alleviating local drought. Affected by extreme high temperature weather, the national forest fire was significantly more than the same period of the same year, mainly concentrated in Chongqing, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places.

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