China News Service, Shanghai, February 22 (Reporter Li Shuzheng) On the 22nd, the highest temperature in Shanghai's urban area reached 26.2℃, the highest in the same period in late February in the past 100 years.
The Shanghai Meteorological Department stated that this was also the second highest in history since Shanghai had meteorological records, second only to 28.5°C on February 27, 1921.
These days, the weather in Shanghai can be said to be warm and warm.
The sun is shining and the breeze is blowing, it feels like warm spring or even early summer.
Why is the weather rising fast?
Kong Chunyan, chief service officer of the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau, said that the main reason for the recent high temperature is that the cold air at high latitudes is very weak.
On the other hand, due to the very strong development of the recent warm and low pressure, the power of the cold air is weak, which has led to the development of the center of the heating group to the northern part of China.
Not only the Shanghai area, but the entire central and eastern part of China are controlled by the heating group.
The fine weather and the southwest wind dominate the ground, so the temperature rises rapidly.
At noon that day, as the temperature rose steadily, the highest temperature in downtown Shanghai reached 26.2℃, the highest in the same period in late February in the past 100 years.
This is also the second highest in history in the same period since Shanghai had meteorological records, second only to 28.5°C on February 27, 1921.
The reporter saw in Pudong near Jinqiao at noon that many pedestrians were dressed only in light singles and even short sleeves.
However, after the warmth of early summer, Shanghai ushered in a roller coaster of temperature.
In the afternoon that day, as the cold air arrived in Shanghai, Shanghai "falled back" to winter within a few hours.
The Shanghai Central Meteorological Observatory issued a gale blue warning signal at 13:00 that day, and Shanghai opened the curtain of cooling from north to south.
Meteorological data showed that the temperature in Chongming, Baoshan and other areas even dropped sharply by more than 9°C within an hour. With the whistling north wind, the body feeling instantly changed from hot to cold.
The jackets that the Shanghainese took off during their lunch break, they eagerly put on them after get off work.
The reporter saw at the Loushanguan Road subway station at 19:00 that some thinly-dressed "white-collar beauties" rushed into the subway station with their arms around them, apparently they had not expected the weather to "return to winter" in one day.
The Shanghai Meteorological Department said that in the next few days, winter rains will return to the scene, and the lowest temperature on the 23rd was only 8℃.
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