-5.8°C!
Feel the coldness?
Chengdu has the second low temperature record
On December 28 last year, the Central Meteorological Observatory upgraded the cold wave warning to the highest level of orange. At that time, the Sichuan Climate Center issued a "New Year’s Question": Will the nationwide "overlord" cold wave issued by the Central Meteorological Observatory this time Breaking the historical record of the lowest winter temperature in Sichuan?
The Provincial Climate Center stated that on the morning of January 25, 2016, the temperature in Chengdu dropped to minus 6.5°C, the lowest since meteorological observation records.
Looking back, Chengdu did not experience a new record of severe cold during that cold wave. According to the records of the Provincial Climate Center, Chengdu had a minimum temperature of -3.4℃ on January 1, 2021 during the New Year’s Cold Wave; On the second day of the snow, on January 8, a low temperature of -4.1°C appeared in Chengdu.
Until yesterday morning, Wenjiang National Meteorological Station recorded a low temperature of -5.8°C. Compared with the lowest temperature in Chengdu in the winter (December-February of the following year) calculated by the Provincial Climate Center for nearly 30 years, the low temperature of -5.8°C is second only to 2016. The temperature of -6.5°C in January was "it can be said that it was the second coldest temperature in winter recorded by Wenjiang National Station in Chengdu in the past 40 to 50 years." According to relevant experts from the Provincial Climate Center.
The chief forecaster of the Provincial Meteorological Observatory Kang Lan explained that the weather in Chengdu was fine the day before yesterday. The sky was not blocked by clouds at night. The heat was lost in the form of long-wave radiation and the temperature dropped rapidly. Therefore, the Wenjiang National Meteorological Station appeared between 7 am and 8 am yesterday Low temperature of -5.8℃.
"Although the temperature is low, it lacks water vapor and uplift conditions, so there will be no snow."
Kang Lan predicts that from today until the 15th, Chengdu will be dominated by sunny to cloudy weather, and the possibility of a low temperature of -5.8°C in the next few days is unlikely.
In addition, it should be noted that it is expected that there will be a puff of cold air affecting Chengdu on the 16th. “The temperature will turn briefly and drop somewhat.”
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Peng Liang