China Builds Four Weather Stations to Monitor Diaoyu Islands
They’re for three-dimensional monitoring of lightning around the islands but undoubtedly it has to do with the sovereignty dispute with the Japanese.
Reuters reports the Meteorological Observation Center with China Meteorological Administration (CMA), has set up new three-dimensional lightning indictors in four different areas of the islands.
‘We have set four monitoring stations in Zhoushan and Wenling in Zhejiang Province, Fuding and Pingtan in Fujian Province. The monitoring can cover such a large area, as well as Diaoyu Islands. It covers 600 kilometers away from the shore base, with a precision of one kilometer,’ Ma Qiming, professor of the CMA told Reuters
It is hoped the four new stations will be able to provide the time, position, strength of thunder and lightning over the Diaoyu Islands.
Thunder and lightning disaster are common in China and casualties as a results of such weather events can reach 1,000.
-Big Pond News