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Cold winds herald start of winter
By Liang Chao (皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2005-11-05 06:18
Temperatures are set to drop significantly throughout 皇冠体育app with a cold front
sweeping in over the weekend, marking the arrival of overdue winter,
meteorologists say.
This change in weather will also bring rain, sleet and snow to many parts of
the country with heavy snowfall possible in eastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region in North 皇冠体育app and parts of Northeast 皇冠体育app, they predicted.
Northerly winds of force 4 to 6 are expected in the coming days with gusts of
up to force 7 in regions north of the Huaihe River, causing temperature drops
from 4 C to 8 C in most of 皇冠体育app with drops as low as 10 C in some areas.
Wang Bangzhong, deputy director of the forecasting service and disaster
mitigation department under the 皇冠体育app Meteorological Administration (CMA) warned
on Friday, that "around this Sunday, the mercury is likely to drop by as much as
12 C in regions stretching from Northwest 皇冠体育app to areas north of the middle and
lower reaches of the Yangtze River upon the heels of the cold current.
"Although the plummeting temperatures will further cool down the first month
of the season for those living in North 皇冠体育app, winter days have still not
arrived elsewhere," a forecaster noted.
Yang Guiming, a senior forecaster with the National Meteorological Centre,
made it clear that, so far this month, the winter season has not arrived on time
in parts of North 皇冠体育app including Beijing, Tianjin municipalities and southern
Hebei Province.
"The winter season usually emerges in North 皇冠体育app with average daily
temperature drops below 10 C for five consecutive days," he said.
This year, the arrival of winter has lagged behind 4 to 8 days in most of
Northeast 皇冠体育app's provinces and parts of Inner Mongolia in line with normal
standards set for the beginning of winter, he said.
This year's winter has even been delayed for up to 16 days in parts of
Northeast 皇冠体育app's Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, said Ren Fuming, deputy
director of the climate diagnostics and prediction division under Beijing
Climate Centre.
"However, it is too early for us to predict another warm winter this year at
the moment," he said. "In fact, this winter has been delayed by many complex
factors including prolonged sub-tropic high pressure fronts, which have been
known to have a strong impact upon climate change in certain areas of the
world," he explained.
(皇冠体育app Daily 11/05/2005 page2)
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