It's not snow, it's ice particles in Wuhan.

It is not snow but ice particles in Wuhan, as shown below:

When Ms. Huang went out, she was pleasantly surprised to find snow seeds falling from her clothes. "It's very light and soon disappears." This is the first snow in the winter of 2023. According to the judgment of the municipal meteorologists, from the photos provided by the citizens, ice particles are more likely.

Last year, Wuhan ushered in the first snow of winter in the early morning of165438+1October 30th, and snowflakes floated in the three towns. The citizens who were not asleep heard the sound of snow hitting the window. In contrast, the first "snow" this winter is slightly less powerful. After being reminded by a friend, Ms. Gui, who was eating in wuhan heaven and earth, found tiny snow seeds on her black clothes. "Don't say I thought it was dandruff." .

According to the weather forecast, yesterday, due to the weak fluctuation of high altitude moving eastward and the cold air moving southward, the north wind in our city strengthened, the temperature dropped, accompanied by weak precipitation. Is this snow? Snow is also a kind of atmospheric solid precipitation. The World Meteorological Organization divides atmospheric solid precipitation into ten types: snowflake flake, star snowflake, columnar snowflake, needle snowflake, multi-branch snowflake, axial snowflake, irregular snowflake, graupel, ice particle and hail. The first seven kinds are collectively called snow.

According to the analysis of meteorological experts in the city, it is more likely that yesterday's "snow" was ice particles. Snow is mostly white, opaque, six-branched, star-shaped, hexagonal and flaky crystals, which often fall slowly and the intensity changes slowly. When the temperature is high, it often falls in droves. Ice particles are frozen raindrops or most of them are melted before freezing.

Generally speaking, the formation conditions are low temperature in the upper air and inversion layer. It is a transparent ball or irregular solid precipitate, which generally bounces when it hits the ground, and sometimes there will be unfrozen water in it, which is more consistent with the morphological structure seen in the photo.

Cold air strikes, and respiratory diseases such as influenza and mycoplasma pneumoniae infection are prevalent recently. Everyone should pay attention to keep warm and strengthen protection. It is estimated that it will be some time before you can see the real snow. Starting today, the city is dominated by cloudy to sunny weather. In the coming week, sunny weather will return and the temperature will gradually rise.