Can I fly by plane after heavy rain? Summary of heavy rain disasters across the country in June

After ten consecutive days of heavy rain, many cities in China have been severely affected by heavy rain. Currently, it is not recommended for everyone to travel to these cities. It is best to cancel your trip. Planes basically do not take off during heavy rains, so you can pay more attention to the weather.

Can I still fly by plane during heavy rain?

No. However, it is best to contact the airline to inquire whether the purchased ticket can be refunded or changed for free, although the possibility of flight cancellation is very high in heavy rain.

When a storm passes through an airport, it usually closes. Although it is not uncommon for lightning to strike an aircraft, the damage rarely exceeds a routine maintenance review after arrival and may be just a few minor problems. The real threat from storms is downdrafts and wind shear. Sudden changes in wind speed and direction can be disastrous for aircraft in critical phases, especially landing aircraft, because the approach speed and stall speed of the aircraft are very close, and changes in wind speed may cause a stall.

Heavy rain may also cause the runway to be slippery. When the aircraft lands, it will affect the landing safety due to insufficient friction coefficient. Airports in some places may even cause water accumulation in the airport due to excessive rainfall in a short period of time. The airport had to be temporarily closed. Due to the different ground auxiliary landing equipment at each airport, there are different takeoff and landing safety standards, so that under similar visibility conditions, some airports can continue to operate normally, while other airports have to be temporarily closed. Therefore, when adverse weather conditions occur, in order to ensure the safety of passengers and aircraft, airlines and air traffic control departments will adjust and control the takeoff and landing of flights to varying degrees according to weather changes, which will inevitably cause delays in and out of the port. Flight delays and stranded passengers.

A summary of heavy rain disasters across the country

The heavy rains in the past 10 days have caused serious disasters in many places in southern my country. Eight provinces, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing, and Guizhou, were severely affected. Statistics show that a total of 5.719 million people were affected in the eight provinces, with direct economic losses reaching 15.89 billion yuan. Fertile fields will fail.

Up to now, floods caused by heavy rainfall in some parts of the south since June 5 have caused 8 provinces (autonomous regions and 52 municipalities) including Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing and Guizhou. (5.719 million people were affected by the disaster in 287 counties (cities and districts) in the autonomous prefecture, and 77 people died (including 34 people in Guangxi, 16 people in Guangdong, 12 people in Jiangxi, 8 people in Zhejiang, 4 people in Hunan, 1 person in Fujian, 1 person in Chongqing, and 1 person in Guizhou , 17 people are missing (including 10 in Guangxi, 3 in Jiangxi, 2 in Guangdong, 1 in Hunan, and 1 in Guizhou), 372,000 people were urgently relocated, and 166,000 people needed emergency living assistance; 11,000 houses collapsed, 64,000 Damage to varying degrees; crops were affected in an area of ??393,000 hectares, of which 54,000 hectares were harvested; direct economic losses were 15.89 billion yuan.

As of now, floods in some areas of Heilongjiang have caused damage to Harbin since June 10. 55,000 people were affected in 33 counties (cities and districts) in 11 cities, including Shuangyashan, Shuangyashan and Suihua; the affected area of ??crops was 247,000 hectares, of which 29,000 hectares had no harvest; the direct economic loss was nearly 73 million yuan.

According to the Meteorological Department It is predicted that in the next three days, there will be moderate to heavy rains in parts of the eastern northwest, eastern southwest, and western and southern South China. Among them, there will be heavy rains in the central Sichuan Basin, northern and western Guizhou, and eastern Yunnan. , there are many showers or thundershowers in Northeast China, North China and other places, the rainfall is unevenly distributed, and there are local strong convective weather such as short-term heavy precipitation, thunderstorms, strong winds or hail.