An early-season snowstorm has blanketed a lot of northern China together with the capital Beijing, prompting highway closures and flight cancellations
BEIJING — An early-season snowstorm has blanketed a lot of northern China together with the capital Beijing, prompting highway closures and flight cancellations.
Temperatures plunged to freezing and beneath as a chilly entrance moved from west to east. A gentle, blowing snow was falling on Sunday in Beijing, the close by metropolis of Tianjin and northeastern China after hitting components of Internal Mongolia and different western areas the day before today.
The Nationwide Meteorological Heart has issued an orange alert for snowstorms, the second highest degree in China’s four-tier warning system. Accumulations of greater than 30 centimeters (11 inches) had been forecast in some areas.
A number of sections of highways round Beijing had been closed Sunday due to the snow.
Flights had been canceled Saturday on the airport in Hohhot, the capital of Internal Mongolia, the official Xinhua Information Company reported. Some expressways had been quickly shut in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, and additional to the west in Shanxi province, Xinhua stated.