Published on : Monday, March 25, 2019
This year, to offer improved weather information for tourists around the Yangtze River Delta region, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau is prepared to construct a regional tourism weather service center, Feng Lei, deputy head of the bureau, said.
As per Feng, for travel, the Yangtze River Delta has rich resources. However, it mainly depends on the weather. Their initial scheme is to offer meteorological travel advice all day long.
“Through the service, it can be ensured that there will always be some sites for travelers to visit under different weather conditions, except for dangerous weather,” Feng told Shanghai Daily.
“For example, some local attractions will have a special charm under gloomy and wet weather, and it’s nice to wander around the ‘sea of clouds’ on Mount Huangshan when there is fog,” said Feng. “Shutterbugs sometimes would like to take a bird’s-eye picture of the city from the top of Shanghai Tower in foggy weather, when it looks quite special.”
Feng explained that if the weather is too adverse and not perfect to indulge in outside activities, they will suggest indoor ones like exhibitions in that case.
By mingling the weather education resources of the region, they will at the same time design some meteorological tour routes with few related organizations.
Prior to the first China International Import Expo organized in the city in 2018, the bureau introduced a Yangtze River Delta integrated service platform on the regional environment and meteorology. Helping with weather authorities in the other three provinces of the region — Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui — the platform keeps an eye on the weather conditions of the whole region and collects statistics for examination.
One major role of the platform is pollution observation and assessment, which has the possibility to find the source and transmission route of pollutants. That can allow weather authorities to make customized plans for avoiding pollution.
In the future, the bureau will further develop the coverage of the platform to more meteorological fields and use more high-tech means to give detailed data.
Saturday was World Meteorological Day — this year’s theme was “The Sun, the Earth and the Weather.”