飛行蟻群干擾天氣雷達

飛行蟻群干擾天氣雷達

A swarm of flying ants big enough to confuse weather radar has been caught flying over southern England.

一群大到足以擾亂氣象雷達的飛行螞蟻在英格蘭南部上空被捕獲。

The "insect clutter", as the UK's Met Office put it, was picked up on on Wednesday.

正如英國氣象局(Met Office)所言，這種“昆蟲雜波”是在周三被發(fā)現的。

"We knew it was dry in the south of England, and yet the radar was showing this very light precipitation across the south," forecaster Simon King told BBC News.

氣象預報員西蒙·金告訴BBC新聞:“我們知道英格蘭南部很干燥，但雷達顯示南部地區(qū)少量降水。”

"You can tell it's not rainfall because it has that eerie look to it. It doesn't quite match what rainfall looks like."

“你可以看出這不是降雨，因為它看起來很怪異。跟降雨量也不太相符。”

Flying ants!!!

會飛的螞蟻!!!

Swarms of them flying into the sky in S Eng are being picked up as rain on the radar image this morning

今天早上，在雷達圖像上，成群結隊的螞蟻飛向天空，他們被當成了雨點。

— Simon King (@SimonOKing) July 17, 2019

——西蒙·金(@SimonOKing) 2019年7月17日

While flying ants are common in the region, this was the biggest swarm King says he's ever seen.

雖然飛蟻在該地區(qū)很常見，但這是我見過的最大的飛蟻群。

"For it to actually to appear on the radar imagery, that's something certainly incredible, and I just feel sorry for all the people who have to experience those flying ants."

“如果它真的出現在雷達圖像上，那肯定是不可思議的，我只是為所有必須經歷這些飛行螞蟻的人感到遺憾。”

The latest view from space shows that our radar is picking up something that isn't along the south coast

最新的太空觀測顯示，我們的雷達探測到了不屬于南海岸的東西。

— Met Office (@metoffice) July 17, 2019

-氣象局(@met office)2019年7月17日

The very concept baffled Met Office followers on social media. The forecaster held a poll asking followers what they thought it was, and most guessed dust.

這一概念讓網友們感到困惑。天氣預報員舉行了一次民意測驗，問網民認為這是什么?結果大多數人猜是灰塵。

"We know this to be insect clutter (flying ants) based on inspection of raw reflectivity," it said afterwards.

“根據對原始反射率的檢測，我們知道了這是昆蟲雜波(飛蟻)”。