China’s worst cold front in decades on Saturday swept the country with snow falling in some parts for the first time in years, forcing authorities to issue an orange alert, the second most severe cold weather warning.
Beijing braces for a 30-year low of minus 16 degrees Celsius from Saturday through Sunday, the Beijing meteorological station said as temperatures dropped to under minus 10 degrees Celsius yesterday, state-run Xinhua news agency said.
Temperatures dropped 6 to 10 degrees Celsius this morning in parts of northwest China, north China and in the eastern Guangdong Province’s Huanghuai area, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC).