Hail Attack, Xinjiang Shihezi Cotton And Other Crops Affected

It starts at 20:10 on June 17th.

After the thunder and lightning, hail suddenly began to last for nearly 20 minutes.

Vegetables and farms in the eight division farm

In this hail, to varying degrees.

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The 131 regiments of the seventh agricultural division, the eight regiment and Kui Guan also encountered the hail.

Xu Zhixin, the political commissar of the seventh agricultural division and other leaders, went to the scene to organize disaster relief and self rescue.

At 20:22 on the 17 th, Shihezi residents Liu told reporters that when hail struck, her car just drove to Shihezi North Third Road and East three road intersection.

At that time, she did not think that it would be hail, crackling and loud, "the biggest is like quail eggs."

On the morning of 18, Ding Hu, deputy director of the Shihezi Meteorological Observatory, told reporters that the hail began at 20:20 and lasted for 12 minutes.

The largest hail diameter is two centimeters, which is rarely seen in Shihezi urban areas for many years.

The range of hail ripple is mainly in Shihezi City, Shihezi Township and a few groups in the south of the 143 regiments.

Ding Hu explained that hail was formed by unstable weather, strong upward movement and sufficient water vapor matching conditions.

Hail weather is the main disastrous weather in Xinjiang. The meteorological department has used rocket and antiaircraft gun to carry out artificial hail suppression operations, making hail into rain and reducing disaster losses.

On the 18 day, the reporter saw 11 farms and 131 farms in the seventh division of the seventh agricultural division. The large area of wheat was crawling on the ground, but not far away, almost all the chili fields were destroyed. Pepper leaves and peppers were destroyed.

Sugar beet was also attacked by the chili land, and the frustrated beet was drooping leaves and fragmented.

According to farmer Cheng Aijun recalls, when he was hailing, he was watering the cotton, when the wind was blowing hard and the hail was smashing down. He was busy with plastic bags on his head. "Hail momentum was strong, and it lasted for more than 20 minutes.

Cheng Aijun, a farmer, contracted cotton for eight workers. He said that this year, his family invested 200 thousand yuan in more than 200 acres of cotton, and cotton grew very well.

Speaking of this, Cheng Aijun was silent.

"200 thousand yuan, it's not a small sum."

Cheng Aijun said that on the night of the hail attack, he and his wife did not sleep one night, and the wife kept crying.

According to the company commander, the total area of the 131 regiment 11 links reached 6880 acres, and the affected crops were pepper, tomato, sugar beet, wheat, corn and corn.

Among them, pepper and tomato were worst hit.

Tianfu Thermoelectric Limited by Share Ltd power supply company staff said that the hail, thunder and lightning caused no small impact on the power supply system of the city, has received a lot of complaints, the power supply company has sent staff to repair.