Sea ice off China coast sets winter record
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Ice covering Liaodong Bay off China's eastern coast on Thursday extended 74 nautical miles from edge-to-edge, a record, up from 55 nautical miles six days ago.
![Fishing boats are frozen in ice at a harbour on the Jinzhou Bay of Bohai Sea in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 1, 2012. The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center issued a sea ice blue alert recently. [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20120203/0014222d985010957e8c0a.jpg "Fishing boats are frozen in ice at a harbour on the Jinzhou Bay of Bohai Sea in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 1, 2012. The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center issued a sea ice blue alert recently. [Xinhua]") |
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Fishing boats are frozen in ice at a harbour on the Jinzhou Bay of Bohai Sea in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 1, 2012. The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center issued a sea ice blue alert recently. [Xinhua] |
According to the National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, sea ice blanketed 21,001 square kms, or 58.3 percent of the Liaodong Bay area on Thursday, mostly 10-20 cm thick and 40 cm at the thickest.
Meanwhile, the maximum outer edge of floating ice in the three nearby sea areas, namely Bohai Bay, the northern edge of the Yellow Sea, and Laizhou Bay stands at 13, 23 and nearly 10 nautical miles, respectively.
The sea ice in the four sea areas totaled an area of 36,637 square kms, up 9,000 from Wednesday, the center said, but forecasted that ice coverage would decrease in the coming days due to warmer air temperatures.
Thursday's monitoring by North China Sea Marine Forecasting Center of the State Oceanic Administration showed that 27,433 square kms or about one third of the Bohai Sea was covered with ice.
The Bohai Sea, semi-enclosed by the Liaodong and Shandong peninsulas, is one of the the country's busiest sea routes.
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