NE China Hit by Worst Snowstorm in 50 Years

Heavy Snow Blankets NE China

Blizzard closed expressways and schools bringing traffic to a virtual standstill across northeast China’s Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces.

China’s National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a yellow alert for blizzards Sunday morning for a second consecutive day, said Xinhua.

Blizzard buffeted NE provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning, covering the ground with a 20-cm (8 in) layer of snow, the NMC said.

Heavy snow blankets NE China. Image credit: news.cn/via Xinhua.

Heavy Snowstorms Hit NE China

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Snowstorms affect millions in China

Major snowstorms have cut off power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in northeast China’s Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces as well as Inner Mongolia and northwest Xinjiang, forcing many schools and highways to close, a report said.

• “Most parts of northeast China and east part of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have undergone intense snowfall on Nov. 11 and Nov. 12. A yellow alert on blizzard was issued by the National Meteorological Center on Monday.”
• In eastern Inner Mongolia scores of buildings have collapsed under the weight of snow.
  
• The temperature fell sharply in East China’s Shandong Province.

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