The water level of the 98 Jingdezhen flood

The highest flood level in Jingdezhen in 1998 was 1.5 meters.

The 1998 floods included the Yangtze River, Nen River, Songhua River, etc. The Yangtze River flood is one of the most severe floods in the entire basin in the 20th century after the two floods in 1931 and 1954;

The floods in the Nenjiang River and the Songhua River are also the most serious floods in the entire basin in the past 150 years. Extreme floods. The affected area was 318 million acres, the disaster area was 196 million acres, the affected population was 223 million, 4,150 people died, 6.85 million houses collapsed, and the direct economic losses reached 166 billion yuan.

Extended information:

Floods can be roughly divided into river floods, coastal floods and lake floods according to the different areas where they occur.

Floods can be divided into rain floods, flash floods, snowmelt floods, ice floods, etc. according to their causes.

Flood level:

General flood: return period less than 10 years.

Serious floods: return period is 10 to 20 years.

Great flood: return period is 20 to 50 years.

Catastrophic floods: return period exceeds 50 years.

The climate characteristics of Jingdezhen are prone to flooding, as follows:

Jingdezhen has a subtropical monsoon climate, with sufficient sunlight, abundant rainfall, mildness and humidity, and four distinct seasons.

The climate in Jingdezhen is changeable in spring, sometimes cold and sometimes warm. At the turn of spring and summer, warm and cold air currents often converge in the territory, causing continuous rain. During the plum rains in the previous summer, the rainfall was concentrated, with frequent heavy and heavy rains. May, June, and The annual average precipitation in July is 200 to 350 millimeters, which can easily lead to floods.

After plum blossoms are mostly controlled by subtropical high pressure, the weather is hot and the humidity is high, making people feel sweltering and unbearable; in autumn, the temperature is mild and there is little rain; in winter, it is often affected by Siberian (or Mongolian) cold high pressure , northerly wind prevails and the weather is cold.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-1998 Great Flood