As a coastal metropolis, the Meteorological Bureau in Shanghai has always been critical, especially during the typhoon season every summer.
But it's only March now, early spring, and it's extremely busy here.
The building blocks the wind and rain outside.
The lights in the meteorological bureau's monitoring room are bright.
Nearly all working personnel are in the building.
Leather shoes kept walking on the white tile floor.
A row of screens are hung on the walls around the testing hall, connected together, and there is a giant screen in the center.
At this moment, what appears above is the weather cloud map of the coastal area of Xia Kingdom.
Its scope covers the Bohai Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea...and most of the northwest Pacific.
On the blue screen, a thin cloud-like cyclone is spreading, and white text and lines mark different names and codes.
There are also red and green arrows, as well as flashing data on the small screen, which is refreshed almost every few seconds.
"The movement speed of Poseidon No. 2 has increased again!"
"How strong is the wind?"
"The latest one has reached level 12, currently 30m/s!"
"That means it's already level four?"
"It's not just that! It's escalating rapidly!"
"How far are we from?"
"According to the current moving speed, it will land in the waters surrounding our city around 19 o'clock in the evening!"
"No! Its movement speed has increased again!"
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In the hall, in addition to footsteps, there were a series of electronic prompts and the voices of the staff inside.
There weren't actually many people in the hall at this time, but it created a noisy effect.
An uneasy atmosphere enveloped the building.
Even if no one can tell clearly where this uneasiness comes from.
Typhoon?
Not to the point.
Although this time is indeed a bit strange, there are many typhoons in the Pacific every year. Although "Poseidon" is tenacious, it will not panic.
What else could it be if it wasn’t a typhoon?
No one knows.
If I have to say it, it's probably because of the continuous rain this month, and people's mood is generally a little depressed.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, the door of the hall was pushed open forcefully.
The staff looked at it at the same time, and then stood up together: "Director!"
"Director!"
"Chief, why are you here?"
People greeted him one after another, but they were very confused.
The director of the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau does not have a technical background, but is just the manager of the administrative field. He rarely comes here. His field should be the conference room.
But at this moment, the director of the Meteorological Bureau rushed in with a stern face.
Behind him, there was a young man.
The key point is that the clothes on the young man are clearly the uniforms of Terry.
"Little lapel?"
"People from Tris? How did they get here?"
People are a little confused.
But he didn't ask.
I just feel that my mood is inexplicably more depressed.
"How's the situation?" The director came in and asked directly.
A middle-aged person in charge wearing glasses walked up and said: "It's normal now."
"I want a specific, detailed report as much as possible, an overall report on the current situation!" the director emphasized, paused, and added, "Don't worry that I don't understand."
The person in charge was helpless after hearing this.
I think you know you don’t understand... Then why do you still want to listen to the detailed report...
Thinking in his mind, he suddenly glanced at the small lapel behind the director, thoughtfully, and simply reported:
"Okay, let me tell you the situation.
Well, the problem mainly occurs with this year’s No. 2 Typhoon Poseidon.
The climate this year is quite unbalanced,
A tropical depression appeared in the northwest Pacific a month ago.
It soon intensified into Typhoon No. 2 and was named Poseidon.
We conducted simulations,
Comrades from meteorological bureaus in other regions, including the Central Meteorological Observatory, also conducted simulations.
We unanimously agreed at that time that
Poseidon No. 2 is very likely to intensify into a super typhoon.
However, according to speculation at the time,
There is a high probability that it will not land in our country.
Of course, although it will not make landfall, the meteorological changes it will affect will still be felt.
As a result, continuous rainfall occurred in many areas of our country.
Of course, the rainfall is very small."
After a pause, the person in charge took the director and the little lapel to the big screen in the hall.
The person in charge manipulated it a few times, and the screen changed.
Records from the past period of time appear,
At the same time, an obvious line appeared on the weather map.
He controlled the big screen and continued:
"We expected at the time,
Poseidon may enter the north side of the subtropical high and directly face the cold air.
May dissipate on the spot here,
It may also be significantly weakened,
Later, this cold air was pushed to the ocean east of the Philippines and continued to develop ragingly.
If Poseidon is strong enough,
It will be strengthened on the east ocean side,
From here, the route enters the South my country Sea,
Rainfall will increase in the short term,
But in the long run,
It will not bring worse results,
It is very likely to directly destroy the basis of atmospheric circulation, thus affecting my country's climate.
Dispel the rain."
After a pause, the person in charge took back his hand from the console, stood up, looked at the director, then looked at the small lapel, and said:
“The subsequent development was indeed as we simulated.
Poseidon was weakened,
Entering the Oriental side of the Philippines,
Then it turns and sails into the South my country Sea,
That is the situation we are currently facing,
The rain in our city was very light in the previous month.
But today it suddenly turned to heavy rain,
This is the impact of Typhoon Poseidon No. 2,
This is within our expectations, so it is considered normal.
The only unusual thing is..."
"What is it?" The little lapel asked for the first time.
This made the director a little dissatisfied, but after all, the Special Administrative Region was an organization with real power and had a far higher status than him, the director of the Meteorological Bureau, so although he was dissatisfied, he didn't say anything.
The person in charge glanced at the lapel, then at his own director. Seeing the director nodding, he said:
"The only abnormality is that Poseidon has returned. After entering the South China Sea, it seems to have a further strengthening trend.
And the speed of its strengthening is astonishing,
Very strange,
We have conducted many simulation operations before,
I haven't found a particularly reasonable reason.
In short, if we use some anthropomorphic expressions,
After the Poseidon entered the South China Sea, he seemed a little... menacing."
"Menacing?"
"Yes, that's how it feels to me, and...
There is one more thing.
We just found out that two more tropical depressions have appeared in the Pacific,
Although it has not yet become a phenomenon, but...
There may not be a risk of intensifying into a new typhoon.
Therefore, in order to prevent problems... Director, I think it is necessary to give advance warning."
"Haven't early warnings been issued before?" Although the director did not understand technology and could not understand the previous reports, he still knew this.
"The previous warning was a bit low. Poseidon's current situation is... a bit weird. I'm applying for a red warning."
"Are you sure?"
The director raised his eyebrows and asked.
"yes."
After the person in charge finished speaking, he saw his director turning to look at the little lapel.
"You already understand the situation, okay, do you have anything else to say?"
The little lapel was silent and took out a document with a bright red seal from the bag he carried.
He said in a deep voice:
"This is the latest document from the central government, which requires all local meteorological bureaus to fully cooperate with the special affairs department, immediately carry out early warning for severe disasters, and establish a temporary flood control command center to ensure that the life and property of the country and people are not threatened!"
The hall suddenly fell silent.
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…
The bus continued to travel along its scheduled route.
Cheng Lin was watching the car TV leisurely.
Qiao Ya was looking at her phone.
The TV is still the city's news station, but the host has been changed. What is being broadcast is yesterday's spring flower show in Shanghai.
"...Now insert a message."
Suddenly, the host changed the subject.
"I have just received news that our city's Meteorological Bureau has issued a red early warning of severe disaster. It is expected that Typhoon Haishen will land in our city tonight. A temporary flood control command center has been established. All departments in the city will obey the deployment to ensure the safety of people's lives and property... Citizens
Please go out less often and stay indoors as much as possible during the typhoon landing to prevent..."
Cheng Lin didn't bother to listen to the next words and turned off the TV directly.
With a snap, the screen went black, and then turned into a transparent windshield, and you could vaguely see the heavy rain outside.
"Typhoon Poseidon?"
Qiao Ya clutched her phone blankly and said: "It turns out it was a typhoon that landed. No wonder it rained so heavily. It's just March..."
Cheng Lin was playing with Qiao Ya's umbrella when he heard this and said, "Do you still think this is just a simple typhoon?"
Qiao Ya looked at him: "What you told me is pure speculation. Yes, the global climate does seem to be abnormal during this period, but this still can't explain anything."
Qiao Ya stared at him seriously.
Yes, the weather is a little unusual, but that still doesn't mean anything.
Qiao Ya is either a girl who listens to the wind or rain, and can be frightened by some baseless speculations.
However, she did feel that something was wrong, similar to a woman's sixth sense.
So she stared at the mysterious and weird person in front of her, hoping that the other person could explain it more clearly.
"What exactly do you want to say? Or...what do you know?" Qiao Ya asked again.
Cheng Lin was speechless.
Shaking his head, he sighed: "I've obviously told you before."
"You mean..."
"newspaper."
"Great Flood, the end of the world?"
"That's right, starting from today."
Qiao Ya laughed: "This is too absurd."
Cheng Lin also laughed: "Isn't it absurd that the spiritual energy was revived back then?"
At this time.
The bus suddenly began to slow down and made an announcement.
"Passengers, the viewing station has arrived..."
The car stopped.
The car door opened slowly.
The heavy rain outside instantly wet the seat next to the door.
The rain is getting heavier.
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The imperial capital of Xia Kingdom.
The location of the capital city.
The largest central meteorological observatory in the country is crowded with people.
It has the best meteorological observation equipment and the most complete national and even global climate information database.
Climate change can be detected in seconds.
And at this time.
On the big screen in the center of the observatory.
On the background of the blue Pacific Ocean, at some point, there was a wonderful scene of three white cyclones coexisting.
Very pretty.
In addition to those three huge cyclones, there are several faint cyclones that are growing and growing in the entire sea area.
At a rough count, there are more than ten.
An observer stood up suddenly:
"Typhoon No. 2 Poseidon has officially strengthened into a Category 6 super typhoon!"
"No. 3 has been strengthened into a Category 5 typhoon!"
"No. 4 has been strengthened into a Category 5 typhoon!"
"Three typhoons form a dynamically stable structure!"
"We are approaching the Magic City!"
"Poseidon has a low pressure of 850 millibars at sea level and a radius of 120 kilometers!"
"The maximum sustained wind speed of a tropical cyclone approaching the center reaches 300km/h!"
"The maximum average wind speed near the center of the ground floor is 45m/s!"
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"We expect to land in the Magic City in one hour!"