PureInsight | June 17, 2002
Since the persecution of Falun Dafa and tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners began three years ago, disasters have occurred everywhere in Mainland China. It's obvious that many areas are encountering the most significant droughts of the century. Many people are reluctant to accept the persecution of Falun Gong as the cause. They do not want to believe that these unusual weather conditions are the manifestation of heavenly anger. However, if we carefully analyze these extremely abnormal droughts, it is not difficult to see that they are not merely natural phenomena.
Currently, the Guangdong and Fujian areas of Mainland China are suffering extremely abnormal droughts. Since the beginning of this year, the combination of little to no rain and high temperatures have caused a serious spring drought in the Fujian area. The drought area is about 1,630,000 mu. (Chinese unit of area: 1,500 mu is equivalent to 1 square kilometer). It is clear that this is an abnormal phenomenon since this has not been the weather pattern of this region over the past half century. The most severe droughts are appearing in the littoral areas, such as Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Putian. All 17 large reservoirs in Fujian Province have reached only 47% of their normal water storage capacity, and the medium-sized reservoirs have reached a mere 34%. More than 300 small reservoirs in the province were classified as dry.
Since last autumn, a rarely seen drought has spread throughout Guangdong province. Since last September, there has been very little rain in Guangdong. So, the winter drought followed the autumn one and the spring drought followed the winter one until this year's flood season was only more drought. The records of rainfall in most hydrology stations indicate zero or minimum levels. In addition, the water levels of all sizes of rivers are very low. Some mountain-pond reservoirs have "dead" water levels or were completely dry. Many brooks are no longer flowing with water. The drought situation in western and eastern Guangdong has endangered the spring plowing. There, 20%-30% of the cropland could not be planted and the successfully planted crops are perishing. Partial areas of the Zhujiang River Delta have experienced the "salt tide" due to seawater spilling back into rivers because of the drought. The drought situation in Shenzhen city has greatly influenced the order of people's normal life and work.
Regarding the extreme degree of the droughts, the Guangdong and Fujian areas are not as serious as the northwest and northern areas of China. However, it is especially abnormal since this happened during the south China pre-flood season. Flood season in southern China is called the south China pre-flood season, and mainly occurs between the end of March and the beginning of May. The rain band of the south China pre-flood season is closely connected with the "plum rain season" in drainages of the Changjiang River and the Huaihe River. In fact they are, generally, the same rain band. It stops in southern China during March and April, forming the pre-flood season. By mid-May, this band of rain will move towards the north, which meteorologically speaking is referred to as a "sudden change in May." In the beginning of June, the rain band will reach and stay in the drainage areas of the Changjiang and Huaihe rivers and form the "plum rain season." Like the "plum rain season," the south China flood season comes at a certain time and causes flooding in a certain area almost every year. It is very rare, historically, not to have the south China flood season. It's equally unusual for there to be a big drought during the pre-flood season. But such heretofore unheard-of droughts like these are occurring on a larger scale now.
If these rare droughts are coincidental, could we also say that it was coincidental when five typhoons idiosyncratically attacked the same area last May, or when cyclones have attacked the same area frequently for the last two years?
Translated from:
http://zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2002/5/21/16140.html
