CCTV News: The Central Meteorological Observatory continues to issue a yellow warning for meteorological drought at 18:00 on May 16: According to real-time meteorological drought monitoring, there are severe and above meteorological droughts in provinces such as Shaanxi, Henan, and Gansu, among which there are particularly droughts in southwestern Shaanxi, western Henan, and eastern Gansu. It is expected that in the next three days, the above-mentioned drought areas will still have less rain and the meteorological drought will remain or develop.

Defense Guide:

1. The northern arid areas pay close attention to the weather evolution. If there are rain-increasing operations, rain-increasing operations should be carried out in a timely manner to alleviate the current drought;

2. The northern winter wheat areas need to prevent the adverse effects of dry and hot wind;

3. The forest fire hazard meteorological level in some areas is relatively high in eastern Gansu, central Shaanxi, southern Shanxi, western Henan, southern Ningxia and other places. Prevention needs to be strengthened to ensure the safety of forest areas.