During The Summer, Thunderstorm Weather Is Increasing. Visitors To The Expo Garden Should Pay Attention To Lightning Protection.

In June 24th, the Shanghai meteorological department issued six reminders of lightning protection in the Expo area.

Experts say that when thunder occurs, visitors should not be close to steel structures, try to avoid walking on elevated viaducts in Expo Park, nor rely on the Expo Axis stay cables and steel pillars in the stadium.

It is reported that 17 days after the opening of the park, the experts carried out a lightning protection inspection for all the buildings in the Expo site.

According to the director of the lightning protection center of the City Meteorological Bureau, the summer season in Shanghai is approaching, and the activities of thunder and lightning tend to increase.

The Expo site is built on both sides of the Huangpu River. It is located at the junction of water and land. The wet place is vulnerable to lightning.

Although Expo Park has built a sound lightning protection system, and steel structures have passed the lightning detection, but once issued a lightning warning, tourists should pay attention to personal lightning protection measures.

The official also said that when the weather warning was issued at all levels, the top of the Expo meteorological tower would flicker the corresponding colors, and visitors could take note of this hint.

In extreme weather conditions, the Expo site will also take measures to evacuate passenger flow.

In addition, when the thunderbolt weather occurs, the electric vehicles in the park are not allowed to be recharged at the station, and the charging in the charging station will not be affected.

Four ways to understand extreme weather.

How can tourists know the possible thunderstorms, strong convection and other weather? Zhou Hourong, deputy director of the World Meteorological Observatory, said there are four ways for tourists to understand the weather conditions:

One is through the display screen in the park.

Under normal weather conditions, these display screens are updated at 9, 11, 17, and 3 times daily for the next 3 days.

The two is to listen to the park broadcast.

Three is through mobile phone SMS.

When the weather is changeable, the Expo organizers will send weather forecast messages to tourists.

The four is to observe the meteorological tower of the World Expo.

Besides showing the temperature, the meteorological tower will flash the corresponding colors after the blue, yellow, orange and red warning is issued by the meteorological department.

Six reminder of lightning protection in Expo site

1, when thundering, try not to stand at the junction of the Huangpu River.

2. When thundering, do not shelter under the big trees in the park green space such as Expo Park and Beach Park.

3. In the park, the viaduct is relatively high and easy to be struck by lightning.

4, when thunder, do not stand on the deck of the Expo ferry, stay indoors.

5, many buildings and facilities in the park adopt steel structure, easy to conduct electric current, and do not get close to these steel structures and facilities when thunder occurs.

For example, do not rely on the cable of the Expo Axis, and do not rely on the columns of the steel structure inside the stadium.

6, when thunder, do not stand in the open square; if standing on the open square, do not support the umbrella with metal handle.