Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 987 - 653: As Unreliable as Ever!

At 3:27 PM, in the small conference room on the second floor of the Linghai Development Zone Barge.

Deputy Mayor Shen sat in the leader's position, presiding over the second expanded meeting of the Emergency Response Assault Team's temporary party committee.

Several teams are outside performing flood control tasks, and the last one won't return until around nine in the evening. Therefore, the attendees are mainly cadres above team leader level at "Linghai Port," including Du Yuan, the grouting team leader who is "temporarily acting" and not a party member.

"Comrades, everyone is aware of this week's weather conditions. The water level of Jingjiang has receded below the warning level, and Hanwu's water level has also fallen. From the climate data of the past decades, the rainy season in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has ended, including the Jingzhou Region, which has 'exited the flood season'."

Deputy Mayor Shen took the cigarette passed to him by Political Commissar Yang and continued, "That means we've won this battle. Our superiors have praised the professional quality and fighting spirit displayed by our Emergency Response Assault Team in flood control and response. Next, we will be assessed for awards and commendations.

Considering the participating troops are exhausted, our superiors issued withdrawal orders at 9:30 this morning for all flood response units, including our Emergency Response Assault Team.

However, our team's situation is somewhat different from that of the brother units. Several teams are still performing protective tasks. We must finish what we've started and not leave halfway. Moreover, a large amount of rescue materials needs to be handed over to local authorities, so our superiors have given us one day's time to prepare."

Hence, the Linghai Reserve Camp also needs to withdraw, but due to being large and slow-moving, it cannot leave as promptly as the main force of the 132 Regiment and likely won't be able to head back home until the day after tomorrow.

There's a lot of "wrap-up" work, and one day might not be enough.

Han Yu was secretly mumbling, when Deputy Mayor Shen shifted his tone: "But there's now a new situation. The meteorological experts from our Linghai Reserve Camp Senior Expert Group, particularly Han Yu's father-in-law, Research Level Senior Engineer Han Shuqun, after half a month of observation, research, and analysis at the Jingzhou Meteorological Bureau, along with repeated consultations with multiple experts in the meteorological system, believe that the flood prevention situation in places like Jingzhou and Hanwu might not be as optimistic as we thought."

The flood season was already over!

The sun is so scorching, the weather so hot, won't we need to fight drought at this rate rather than floods!

The attendees couldn't believe it, including Han Yu, who looked at Friend Han in surprise.

"Master Han, I don't understand meteorology, you're the expert, please explain to the comrades."

"Alright."

Friend Han was already prepared, opened his briefcase, and took out a large stack of meteorological maps.

Seeing his father-in-law struggling with the papers, Han Yu promptly stood up to help display them.

The son-in-law was perceptive, and Friend Han was pleased, explaining in the most understandable way possible: "Anyone who has attended elementary school likely remembers the lesson 'Clouds and Weather,' which is mainly about how weather follows patterns.

From the perspective of meteorological popular science, it's very well written. Many young comrades in our meteorological system became interested in meteorology through this lesson and chose to study meteorology, ultimately engaging in meteorological observation and forecasting." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Those present had attended elementary school and remembered the lesson.

Xiao Yu hadn't attended elementary school, didn't learn 'Clouds and Weather,' but he was interested in operating an excavator. He didn't want to be a Deputy Company Commander, choosing instead to be a driver of the excavator for Company One, thus not qualifying to attend a meeting of cadres above team leader level.

Just as Han Yu pondered whether his father-in-law had lost his mind or might make another inaccurate weather forecast, Political Commissar Yang curiously asked: "Master Han, are you suggesting that, from a professional standpoint, climate change might not necessarily follow historical patterns?"

"Yes."

Friend Han nodded, pointed at the maps his eldest son-in-law was displaying, and explained: "This is a pressure map. It shows that the Subtropical High controlling the Yangtze River Basin is considering a retreat. In a typical year, the Subtropical High would dance with the seasons, moving to the East Guang Coast in mid-spring, ascending Jianfu Taiwan in early summer, controlling the Yangtze River Basin in peak summer, even reaching North China and Northeast, before retreating.

But these two years have been different, especially last year, when the Equatorial Pacific west of South America experienced the strongest recorded El Niño event. This would allow subsiding airflow east of the Philippines in the Tropical Pacific to facilitate the southward retreat of the Subtropical High."

El Niño...

The father-in-law attended a symposium in the East Sea this spring, researching this phenomenon.

As Han Yu wondered how El Niño might relate to the climate of the Yangtze River Basin, Master Han continued: "Me and my colleagues in the meteorological system have observed through existing technical means like meteorological satellite detection, that since July 15, five days ago, signals of the Subtropical High retreat have been continuously observed.

It keeps advancing northward and retreating southward, overall taking small steps backward. By July 18, two days ago, another force suddenly began intervening!"

Master Han found the second map, asking his eldest son-in-law to keep displaying it.

Han Yu had no choice but to continue being his father-in-law's human map stand.

"Under the joint pressure from the two warm high-pressure systems at the Ural Mountains in Russia and East and West Siberia, a cold vortex from Central Siberia moved south into Northeast China and halted. It rotates while continuously releasing cold air. Under this sustained harassment, the weakened body of the Subtropical High finally couldn't persist any longer and retreated back to the Pacific."