Does the typhoon in Xiamen affect flights

Typhoon Xiamen will have a certain impact on flights.

For safety reasons, airlines will adjust flights in typhoon-affected areas according to the path and development of the typhoon, and the affected flights may be delayed or even cancelled. Typhoon weather also has a certain impact on aircraft, such as bumps, lightning strikes, hail, low visibility, wind direction changes and so on.

The reason why the typhoon bumps the plane is because the typhoon will produce strong wind speed at the bottom, which is easy to cause severe bumps and affect the flight of the plane. Lightning strike refers to the lightning strike time easily caused by strong electric field when an airplane passes through a thunderstorm area. Hail means that typhoon weather sometimes produces hail weather, and the speed of aircraft flight is easily hit by hail.

At the same time, typhoon will cause low visibility, fog and heavy precipitation will cause low visibility, which will cause great obstacles to aircraft. And the wind has become a recognized invisible killer, but also the enemy of flight accidents.

Structure of typhoon:

Typhoon is a deep low-pressure system, and its central air pressure is very low. There is an air flow converging towards the center at the lower level, and the air flow at the upper level mainly diverges outward. If the typhoon is cut horizontally, we can see that there are three obviously different areas, from the center to the outside: typhoon eye area, cloud wall area and spiral rain belt area.

Typhoon Eye Area: It's strange that the wind here is very light and the weather is sunny, with an average diameter of 40 kilometers. The sailors who participated in it humorously called Typhoon Eye "Xanadu".

Cloud wall area: the cloud wall area with a width of tens of kilometers and a height of more than ten kilometers around the typhoon eye, also called eye wall. The cloud wall is towering here, the wind is howling, the rain is pouring, the sea is churning, and the weather is the worst.

Spiral rain belt area: Outside the cloud wall, there are spiral rain belts, and several rain (cloud) belts gather spirally around the eye wall. The rain is tens to hundreds of kilometers wide and several Qian Qian meters long. There will be showers and windy weather where the rain belt passes.

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