China Meteorological Administration on Friday announced North China’s regions on high drought alert.
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hebei, Shanxi provinces in the north and Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces in the northeast have been suffering the drought since this spring, which is the severest drought in the last 40 years, according to the National Climate Center under the administration.
High temperature and dry weather since this month has resulted in low soil humidity (below 40 percent) in some areas of Inner Mongolia and spread the drought to a larger scale in the northeast provinces. Part of Shanxi was also severely affected, said Zhang Qiang, head of the Climate Evaluation Office.
According to Friday’s monitoring of nationwide climate and drought, 40 percent of Inner Mongolia, 28 percent of Jilin, 62 percent of Liaoning and 33 percent of Heilongjiang are being affected by the drought.
Forecast by the Central Meteorological Center said that in the next 10 days, no obvious rainfall was coming to the above- mentioned regions and the temperature would remain higher than the average annual level. The drought will probably get worse.
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