Abstract:To establish the agricultural meteorological disaster indicators for winter jujube fruit cracking and meet the requirements for agricultural meteorological disaster warning, winter jujube at the crisp-ripe stage was selected as the experimental material. Equipment such as rainproof fabric, racks, and air coolers were used to simulate the temperature, humidity, and sunshine conditions of continuous rainy weather, while micron-level nozzles were employed to simulate different rainfall intensities. The effects of continuous rainfall with different magnitudes on fruit cracking in winter jujube were investigated. The results showed that the fruit cracking rate was positively correlated with both rainfall amount and rainfall duration, with a correlation coefficient exceeding 0.833 with rainfall amount, indicating a strong correlation. No fruit cracking occurred under rainfall lasting 24 hours, regardless of rainfall intensity. The initial time of fruit cracking was closely related to rainfall duration, with cracking occurring after 30 to 34 hours of rainfall. The greater the hourly rainfall intensity, the faster the fruit cracking rate increased; conversely, the lower the hourly rainfall intensity, the longer the time until cracking ceases. Thus, continuous rainfall lasting more than 30 hours can cause varying degrees of cracking in well-grown winter jujube fruits.