The Gulf of Viagra and the Caribbean region can be said to be one of the most complex sea areas in the world. All of this should be attributed to several invisible currents. It can be said that this sea area is also the most complex sea area in the world with Shanghai flow.

There are four main currents in this sea area. One is the Guyana warm current entering the southeast of the Caribbean Sea, which enters the Gulf of Mexico. The second is the North Equatorial warm current entering the north of the Little Andres Islands, which eventually enters the Gulf of Mexico. The third is the Gulf of Mexico warm current exiting the Gulf of Mexico. After passing through the Florida Strait, this warm current goes north and eventually turns into the North Atlantic warm current near Newfoundland Islands. The fourth is the Labrador cold current along the east coast of the United States, which ends in the northern waters of the Bahamas. In addition, to the east, there is an Andres warm current separated from the North Equatorial warm current. That is to say, there are a total of five currents that affect this sea area.

Among these currents, the Labrador cold current is definitely the only cold current. It is this cold current that causes the hydrological conditions of the sea area to be extremely complex. On the surface, the temperature of the warm current is only a few degrees higher than the surrounding sea water, and the cold current is only a few degrees lower. But it is these temperature differences that ultimately have a huge impact on the climate. For example, the annual average rainfall in the Gulf of Mexico is about 13 o mm, while the same rainfall on the earth is above this. Similarly, the East Coast of the United States is the East Coast.

The winter in the region is extremely cold, which is considered low in the same latitude, and is also affected by the Labrador cold current. It is the area produced in the mid-Atlantic waters and frequent the Caribbean Sea. The Gulf of Mexico and the eastern United States Atlantic hurricanes are also a comprehensive product of these meteorological factors. Whether in peacetime or during wartime, hurricanes will appear, and will have a huge impact on all human activities, including war. June to November every year is the high season for hurricanes

Before the outbreak of the war, there was no systematic meteorology. Although the impact of meteorology on military operations was quite obvious at that time, and some people had proposed systematic study of meteorological changes, no country had truly developed systematic meteorology. The driving force of war is incomparable to the normal development of peacetime, and it is precisely because meteorology has an increasingly greater impact on war, and war has an urgent need. In fact, systematic meteorology was born during the war. At that time, the navies of various countries were definitely the most concerned about meteorology.

In 24 years, before the United States participated in the war, the Imperial Navy established a research institute. It was originally led by an organization under the General Staff of the Navy Command. As the meteorological territorial problems became more and more serious, by the beginning of 26, this department had been directly responsible for the Chief of Staff of the Navy. At that time, the main research was still focused on practical applications, such as how to systematically analyze meteorological changes, how to detect and judge meteorological changes. This included both theoretical analysis and research, as well as a lot of practical work. For example, this department was the first to propose the development of meteorological radar, and it received full support from the Navy.

But the problem is that at that time, the comprehensive and in-depth research on meteorology was just beginning, and the most important theoretical system was still being improved and summarized. In addition, the means of observing meteorological changes, especially marine meteorological changes, are quite limited, so the accuracy of meteorological prediction will not be much higher. Sometimes, in order to assist in planning campaigns, dozens of meteorologists were even concentrated. However, the conclusions drawn by these scientists are often contradictory. For example, when attacking Australia 6

Hou. The Navy organized more than 30 scholars who specialize in marine climate change, hoping that they could predict future meteorological changes so that they could schedule the time of the 6th at the most favorable time. However, these more than 30 scholars came up with six conclusions, and six completely different or even completely contradictory conclusions, which almost made the Navy responsible for pursuing these scholars and pursuing where so much research funds provided by the Navy each year were spent.

By 28 years, this situation still did not change much. In fact, the main factor restricting the accuracy of climate change prediction was that there was no effective observation and detection method at that time. Whether it was a meteorological reconnaissance aircraft or the meteorological radar that appeared at the end of 27, they could only detect the meteorological changes and movement conditions, and it was impossible to detect meteorological changes thousands of kilometers or even thousands of kilometers away. Theoretical research at that time had proved that meteorological changes were a global problem, and many major meteorological changes were caused by thousands of kilometers, thousands of kilometers, and even some factors on the other side of the earth. At that time, some people proposed the butterfly theory, believing that meteorological changes were unpredictable. Regardless of whether this theory is correct or not, it ultimately explained a problem. At that time, it was absolutely extremely difficult to accurately predict the weather conditions in a few days, and it was even a matter of gambling luck.

Because of this, generals who command the army to fight often deliberately ignore the weather factors that should not have been ignored. Even when weather factors must be considered, the commander will try to shorten the prediction time. This reduces the difficulty of prediction, but also increases the uncontrollable factors of combat operations, thereby increasing the possibility of failure of combat operations. During the entire war, countless battles were defeated due to weather factors. Not to mention other things, on the battlefield of the Great Six, it took more than a year to defeat Russia because the weather changes exceeded the prediction range, resulting in hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers, as well as more German soldiers, and Persian Empire officers and soldiers staining the battlefield with blood. Similarly, on the marine battlefield, the impact of weather changes was extremely serious. On the Pacific battlefield, there were several battles that failed or were forced to terminate due to sudden changes in weather.

It’s not that Tan Renhao has suffered from God. On the Pacific battlefield, at least two campaigns had unexpected results due to weather factors. But the problem is that Tan Renhao is not a meteorologist. He only knows superficial meteorological knowledge. This is a necessary common sense for generals, and it is even more impossible to make accurate predictions about weather changes. It is precisely because he suffered several losses before, Tan Renhao always held an incomplete trust in weather forecasts. At that time, few generals understood that they really put the weather forecast in their hearts. At most, they just decided to make the battle period when planning the battle.

Bad weather occurs, but ordinary weather changes are often not affected

Perhaps it was because Tan Renhao did not pay much attention to weather forecasting that he was punished again. But he couldn't blame him for this. If he had to blame, he could only blame God for his lack of good deeds, or because the officers of weather forecasting were insufficient in their professional capabilities and were unable to provide accurate forecasts.

Before returning to the fleet, Tan Renhao got the weather forecast for the next five days, which was the longest accurate weather forecast that could be made at that time. And this so-called accuracy does not mean that it is completely accurate, but that the probability of the predicted weather situation is more than 80%. In other words, there are 20% of other weather conditions that may occur, which naturally includes bad weather conditions.

With this report, Tan Renhao directly threw the weather factors behind his mind. According to the fleet's ability to withstand weather changes at that time, as long as there was no bad weather, no matter whether it was raining or sunny, he could continue to fight. The impact should not be very big, at most it would only reduce the combat efficiency. However, the weather this time was definitely not as simple as reducing the combat efficiency.

On the night of the 23rd, when Tan Renhao began to organize an aviation operation, he received a telegram from Lei Shaoqing. This was a weather change report, and the reporting unit was a weather station located on Dominic Island. When the weather station issued the telegram, a hurricane from the central Atlantic was approaching Dominic Island at a degree of more than 80 knots, and the degree was still at "1t;" It is expected that after entering the Caribbean Sea, it will be affected by the warm air in the northwest direction. When it reaches the southern waters of Haiti, the movement may exceed 1oo, and the wind at the center will exceed 15o. According to the current local classification, this can definitely be considered a hurricane of level 12 or above. According to the conditions at that time, this weather forecast has been so detailed that it cannot be detailed.

After receiving the telegram, Tan Renhao was a little unbelievable. After all, he had been deceived many times. However, he soon thought that when the lateral wind passed 25 knots, it would be difficult for carrier-based aircraft to take off and after 3 knots, it would be difficult for them to land. In other words, the hurricane did not need to reach the combat waters of the fleet, but only needed to get close to the combat waters. It would prevent the fleet from dispatching aircrafts and thus unable to participate in combat operations. Considering the seriousness of the problem, Tan Renhao immediately ordered the fleet to advance to Xijia, moving the combat waters westward for nearly 100 miles, hoping to avoid the hurricane. However, he seriously underestimated the power and impact range of hurricanes, 100 miles, for hurricanes above level 12.

In terms of wind, this interval is indeed too short 12 dbsp; by around 12 o'clock on the 23rd, the hurricane had reached the central Caribbean sea, and its movement was much faster than predicted. At that time, the hurricane movement of a shore-based long-range meteorological reconnaissance aircraft reached 105, and according to the forecast, the hurricane was only 90 knots at most. By about 5 o'clock on the 24th, the hurricane had reached the nearest fleet combat waters set by Tan Renhao, and its movement had passed 12 o'clock. The central wind had passed 17 o'clock. Under the combined action of several warm currents in the Caribbean Sea, the hurricane was like a crazy beast, in this narrow sea area.

There was no man-made force that could intercept the launch, and it was impossible to turn it to 12dbsp; at that time, the customs of the sea area where the fleet was located had approached 20 knots. Tan Renhao had ordered the fleet to continue sailing westward, and arranged for reconnaissance aircraft to take off before 5:30, which was fifteen minutes ahead of the plan. Then, the fighter jets that provided cover for the third special mixed fleet also continued to take off. After the fighter left the aircraft carrier, the customs on the sea reached 25 knots. It was basically close to the limit of carrier-based aircraft takeoff. At this time, it was impossible to determine whether the Atlantic Fleet was in the Port of Santiago. Or where else, Tan

Renhao could not allow bombers with bombs and torpedoes to leave the aircraft carrier early, and could only let the fleet avoid hurricanes as much as possible. 12dbsp; Compared with the hurricane movement, the fleet's 3O-land navigation degree seemed too half past. That is, when Tan Renhao gave Chang Jian Xin news, he was unable to send bombers to participate in the battle for the time being. Then when the third special fleet engaged in artillery battle with the US fleet, the fleet had already reached about 180 miles southwest of Jamaica and was still continuing to sail westward. If he sailed for dozens of nautical miles, the fleet would leave the range to attack the Port of Santiago, and the reconnaissance aircraft and fighter planes that had been released before were likely to be unable to return to the fleet.

Just when Tan Renhao was anxious, the fleet was caught up by a hurricane. To be precise, it was severely affected by the hurricane, because the center of the hurricane was actually in the southeastern waters of Jamaica, and it was still dozens of nautical miles away from the fleet. Under the strong winds of 75 knots, the aircraft carrier seemed very fragile. Fortunately, several aircraft carriers of the special mixed fleet had replaced the hurricane bow, which was a fully enclosed ship, and the flight deck.

The bearing structure between the hangar has been strengthened several times. Otherwise, the flight decks of these more than a dozen aircraft carriers would have been blown to the sky at that time. The life of the escort warships was not easy, and the heavy cruiser would have been slightly better. After all, it would have been heavier and more stable. The destroyer was like a small boat in the wind and waves. It was pushed to the top of the waves and then to the bottom of the waves. It even made people feel that these small boats might be swallowed by the huge waves at any time.

Just when Tan Renhao was almost desperate, the hurricane was affected by the high-pressure air mass from the 6th Central America, and its degree began to slow down and also turned northwest. In other words, the hurricane let go of the Imperial Navy fleet. In the eyes of Tan Renhao and others, it was probably God who opened his eyes and did not want to torture them anymore. Some of the more superstitious officers and soldiers thought that God heard their begging 12dbsp; As the hurricane turned, the fleet also turned southeast.
Chapter completed!