Chapter 655: The Storm Comes
"Oh, I'm Diniang!" Tang Feng exclaimed loudly.
I have long heard that the blizzard in Antarctica is severe, but since he landed on the Antarctic continent, Tang Feng has not felt the power of the Antarctic blizzard in the past few days. Now the clouds forming in the distant sky clearly indicate that an extremely violent blizzard is coming.
The color of the sky became extremely fast, almost in the blink of an eye, and the sky that was originally cloudless overhead was already overcast, and the situation was no different from the special effects in Hollywood blockbusters.
Tang Feng has lived for almost thirty years since he was a child, and he has never seen the sky change so fast, just from the speed of this change, there is no doubt that what will be followed will be a terrifying and even desperate blizzard.
Antarctica's blizzards are famous, with maximum winds of 82 m/s observed at Mawson Station in Australia in 1972 and 100 m/s at Dearville Station in France. What is this concept? You must know that the wind speed of a 12-level typhoon is 32.6 m/s, and the wind speed of a 17-level hurricane is only 61.3 m/s, and according to the wind speed of 100 m/s, the intensity of this hurricane must be at least above 28!
Unfortunately, with the exception of tornadoes on the Antarctic and Fujita scales above F3, there has never been a hurricane with a wind speed of 100 m/s anywhere on Earth!
And in the warm season in Antarctica, although the temperature has risen, the blizzard in the warm season in Antarctica is more deadly.
Because of the rising temperature, the warm season has become the best time window for human exploration of Antarctica, and almost all explorations of the interior of Antarctica are carried out in the warm season. And the Antarctic cannot fly fixed-wing aircraft, so the exploration of the interior of the Antarctic is all artificial.
Although the blizzard in the warm season is not as severe as the blizzard in the cold season. But once the scientific expeditions in the field encounter this kind of blizzard, the probability of surviving is not high. In the cold season, the scientific research personnel are all cats at the scientific research station, even if there is a snowstorm coming, people are not afraid. But in the warm season, you're in the field. There's not even a place to hide, how can you fight against nature's most unforgiving power?
Therefore, the blizzard in the warm season of Antarctica is the most deadly!
Seeing that the sky was rapidly darkening, Tang Feng had already realized that the level of this blizzard must not be low. In Antarctica, a snowstorm with an intensity of less than 12 is not a problem at all, on the contrary, as long as there is a snowstorm in Antarctica, the intensity is basically more than 12.
Tang Feng turned around and looked at the Prinoci snowmobile, which weighed only 600 kilograms empty. And there is a large carriage in the back, and even if you put supplies, the weight of the car is only a little more than a ton. This weight, in a storm above level 12, is no different from a piece of paper.
So, this snowmobile can't be left outside!
Tang Feng made a decision in an instant, but this was not the time to take the snowmobile back. Because it is surrounded by a flat river, there is not even a place to block the wind. About 400 meters to the left, there is a small hill, and if you can reach the leeward side of that hill in a short time, you can at least weaken the strength of the wind a lot.
Tang Feng pulled the car door, let Woods get into the car, and then stepped on the accelerator. As soon as the steering wheel turned, the snowmobile's engine suddenly let out a roar, and black smoke came out of the back of the butt and drove towards the small hill.
The distance of more than 400 meters, at the speed of a snowmobile, is almost a minute. And in this short minute, the sky was already so gloomy that it was almost impossible to see the road ahead, and as a last resort, Tang Feng turned on the headlights of the snowmobile for the first time.
It wasn't until Tang Feng ran to the leeward side of this small hill that Tang Feng realized that this small hill was not bad.
The hill is about 100 meters high, and there is absolutely no problem with keeping the wind out, but the slope of this leeward slope is a little smaller, and if the storm blows over the hill, a large part of the strong wind will blow down the hillside. The wind may have weakened, but it is not estimated that it will be much weaker.
But it's a lot better than the place I'm just in.
Tang Feng jumped out of the car, and Sanxiao also jumped down. But at this time, the three of them were all swinging around, and it was obvious that the three of them were also frightened by this ruthless heavenly might.
Sanxiao is the overlord at the top of the food chain, but how can they resist the majesty of heaven? In the face of this power of nature, everything is small, including human beings!
As soon as Tang Feng stretched out his hand, the snowmobile was included in the star core space, and at the same time, in an instant, Tang Feng's hand had an extra sharp sapper shovel.
Originally, Tang Feng wanted to put Sanxiao into the star core space, but Sanxiao seemed to know that his father was going to do this, and he actually bit Tang Feng's trouser leg together, which means very clearly, Dad, don't want to put us in the space, we are in trouble!
For this kind of performance of the three elementary schools, Tang Feng was greatly moved. If you don't take it, you won't accept it, anyway, the three of them will always be by their side, and if there is a danger that they can't resist, they can also put the three of them into the space as soon as possible.
At this time, Tang Feng suddenly felt that the air around him seemed to stop flowing, and the sky, which was still whining, became silent at this moment, and the wind that had been raging just now seemed to have completely disappeared at this moment.
At this moment, Tang Feng's heart was even more pinched. This is not uncommon and tends to be a weather condition that occurs before extreme weather occurs.
It's like before hail in summer, often in the moments before the hail, you usually don't feel the wind. But once the hail falls, then what kind of storm will definitely change the color of the heavens and the earth.
When Tang Feng was in high school, he encountered a hailstorm, and the situation at that time was similar to now, except that the sky at that time was far less dark than now. If an uninformed person sees this kind of sky, he will definitely say that it is night, but definitely not that it is day.
Tang Feng knew very well that God was running out of time for himself, and if he wanted to survive, it was safest to seize all the time to dig out a snow nest.
This place is still covered with some snow on the leeward side because of the small hills. In fact, it rarely snows in Antarctica, and even if it is a blizzard, it is blown away by strong winds in an instant, and it does not fall to the ground at all. Antarctica is more about glaciers, not snow.
This place is also because it is on the leeward side, so there will be some snow left, but when Tang Feng dug down the snow with a sapper shovel, he was horrified to find that those things that looked like snow had actually merged with the glacier below, although it was not as hard as the glacier, but it was not something that a mere sapper shovel could deal with! (To be continued.) )