Yanshan

Yunnan - China

2024-04-20

Yanshan County Meteorological Observatory issues an orange drought warning signal [Level II/Severe]

Issue date: 2024-04-15T17:07+08:00

On April 15, 2024 at 17:07, the Yanshan County Meteorological Observatory issued an orange drought warning signal: According to the latest monitoring, most townships in Yanshan County have experienced severe or above meteorological droughts. It is expected that meteorological drought will continue to develop in the next 5 days, with a high level of meteorological drought risk.

Description

It is expected that the meteorological drought index will reach severe drought in the next week (meteorological drought is once in 25-50 years), or more than 40% of crops in a certain county (district) will be affected by drought.

Guidelines

1. Relevant departments and units do a good job of emergency response to drought prevention in accordance with their duties;

2. Relevant departments use emergency standby water sources, dispatch all available water sources within their jurisdiction, and give priority to guaranteeing urban and rural residents' domestic water and livestock drinking water;

3. Reduce urban water supply indicators and give priority to irrigation water for cash crops, and restrict large amounts of agricultural irrigation water;

4. Restrict non-productive high water consumption and service industry water use, and restrict the discharge of industrial sewage;

5. The meteorological department shall conduct artificial precipitation enhancement operations in a timely manner.