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Study: China's hail storms are decreasing
Beijing (UPI) Aug 7, 2008 U.S. and Chinese researchers say they've determined climate change might be responsible for a decrease in hail falling across China. Hail -- defined as precipitation of balls or irregular lumps of ice produced by storm clouds -- forms when liquid raindrops freeze at altitudes above a threshold called the "freezing level height," researchers said. If drops cannot be formed above the freezing level, precipitation remains in a liquid state. The scientists from the University of Hawaii and the Beijing School of Physics wanted to determine whether precipitation trends in hail have changed on regional scales. To accomplish that, they studied data from more than 753 meteorological stations across China. Their analysis suggests that while there is no trend in the mean number of average hail days between 1960 and early 1980, the number of such days diminished thereafter from about two days to less than one day each year. The researchers posit the drop in hail precipitation is due to a rising trend in freezing level height. The study by Baoguo Xie and Qinghong Zhang of the School of Physics and Yuqing Wang of the University of Hawaii is reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Related Links Weather News at TerraDaily.com
South China evacuates nearly 400,000 as storm approaches
Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2008China evacuated nearly 400,000 people and called thousands of vessels back to port as a severe tropical storm lashed its southern coast late Wednesday, state media and government agencies said. |
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