Sea Freeze, 1000 Ship Stuck in China

                            

SHANGHAI, KOMPAS.com - The temperature in China fell to its lowest point in three decades. As a result, the waters were frozen by the beach and make 1,000 units of ships trapped in ice, the country's official media reported this weekend.

Since the end of November, China has faced an average air temperature of minus 3.8 degrees Celsius or 1.3 degrees Celsius lower than the temperature of the previous average. Temperature was the lowest in 28 years, Xinhua news agency reported Metereolgi Agency quoted China.

Temperature extremes that even the sea froze in the Laizhou Bay which is the province of the territorial waters Shandong in eastern China, causing 1,000 ships trapped in ice, reports the China Daily newspaper .

Zheng Dong, chief meteorologist at Yantai Marine Environmental Monitoring Center under the State Oceanic Administration, told the newspaper that the sea ice area in the Laizhou Bay area reached 291 square kilometers this week.

transportation across China had been disrupted due to temperature extremes. More than 140 flights from the airport in Hunan Province was delayed, while heavy snow also forced the closure of a number of cruise lines section of Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau, China Daily reported .

Temperatures in eastern China Sea even lower, reaching minus 15.3 degrees Celsius or 3.7 degrees lower than the temperature of the previous average. The figure was the lowest point in 43 years.