At 6 o’clock this morning, the Central Meteorological Observatory continued to issue six early warnings, including orange warning for cold wave, yellow warning for blizzard, yellow warning for freezing, yellow warning for fog, blue warning for strong wind and blue warning for severe convective weather.
The Central Meteorological Observatory predicts that the large-scale freezing rain and snow weather in the central and eastern regions will continue today and enter the strongest period of rain and snow.
Office of National Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief Committee: Video conference on low temperature, rain, snow and freezing disasters
Yesterday (20th) afternoon, the Office of the National Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief Committee and the Emergency Management Department discussed and dispatched the prevention and response of cold wave, rain and snow weather in the central and eastern regions, and held a special video conference on low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters.
63,000 people are prepared to sweep the snow, and it is recommended to travel at the wrong peak.
Yesterday evening, there was snowfall in Beijing.
The environmental sanitation department of Beijing started the snow sweeping and deicing work overnight to ensure the safe travel of the people.
Headquarters reporter Gao Xue:Due to the influence of strong cold air before, the snow will not melt in a short time after falling to the ground, so that the thickness of the snow will accumulate rapidly in just a few hours. For example, the snow around me, from 5: 00 pm to 11: 00 pm, has reached the depth of half a palm, about 7-8 cm, which also brings us difficulty in sweeping snow and deicing overnight.
Yang Jinliang, Second Investigator of Environmental Sanitation Department of Beijing Municipal Management Committee:At present, the amount of snow in this snowfall is uneven, showing that it is larger in the south and smaller in the north, and the south has reached the magnitude of blizzard. At present, the city has invested 63,000 people and about 7,630 vehicles.
The snow sweeping and deicing work started overnight in this round is based on the principle of mechanical snow sweeping, supplemented by manual snow sweeping, and scientific use of snow melting agent. Snow removal equipment such as spreader, snow shovel and roller brush are used to carefully implement the combined operation. According to the changes of snowfall in real time, we will focus on snow sweeping and ice shoveling in main roads, hospitals, subway stations, overpasses and other areas. In addition, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau also issued a yellow warning of road icing last night, advising citizens to travel at wrong peaks and advocating taking public transportation.
The average precipitation of counties (cities) in Cangzhou, Hebei Province is 7.6 mm.
From yesterday morning to 21: 00, the precipitation in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province reached 16.2 mm, the average precipitation in counties (cities) in Cangzhou reached 7.6 mm, and the maximum precipitation in Suning National Station reached 16.7 mm.
During the snowfall, there were strong winds of more than 17 m/s at 5 stations. It is expected that the local weather will turn cloudy from light snow during the day.
62 bus lines were temporarily suspended due to snowstorm in Yangquan, Shanxi.
Yesterday (20th) in Yangquan, Shanxi, 62 bus lines were stopped.
Emergency headquarters Office of Meteorological Disasters in Yangquan City launched a four-level emergency response to blizzard.
Yesterday (20th) afternoon, Yangquan Meteorological Observatory issued an orange warning of blizzard and a yellow warning signal of road icing. As of 14: 00 yesterday afternoon (20th), the maximum precipitation in Yangquan City was 11.4 mm, and the snow depth exceeded 8 cm, reaching the level of blizzard. Affected by snowfall and road icing, 62 bus lines in Yangquan City were temporarily suspended, and vehicles skidded in some sections with steep slopes in the urban area. The local traffic police launched rescue to ease traffic. In addition, local roads, sanitation and other departments are also actively carrying out snow removal and deicing work to alleviate the impact of snowfall on road traffic.
At present, Shanxi Meteorological Observatory has successively issued cold wave, gale blue warning, road icing yellow warning and blizzard orange warning signals. It is predicted that there will still be rain, snow, strong wind and cooling weather in Shanxi today (21st-22nd).
Snow graupel appears in many places in Shanxi, which is a kind of solid snowfall.
In addition to snowfall these two days, another form of "snow" has fallen in Shanxi. This kind of "snow" is not the same as usual, like snow, like hail, and many netizens wrote articles describing it as "like monosodium glutamate or fertilizer", "like salt" and "a bit like plastic foam" …
In this regard, the Meteorological Observatory of Yangquan City, Shanxi Province explained that these small particles in the air are called graupel, which is a kind of solid snowfall. They are small ice particles condensed by water vapor in the high air when it meets cold air, and they often appear before or during the snowfall. In different areas, there are names such as Mi Xue, Xue Yue and Xue Zi.
Affected by the cold wave in Shandong, snow graupel appeared in Heze.
Affected by strong cold air and southwest warm and humid airflow, there was a snow storm in Heze, Shandong Province yesterday (20th) afternoon. Due to the low temperature, some roads are frozen, and there are obviously fewer pedestrians on the road. The passing vehicles also turn on the double flashing and drive slowly.
Bazhou, Xinjiang should deal with dusty weather and strengthen vehicle guidance.
From the afternoon of February 16th, sandstorm weather continued to appear in Bazhou, Xinjiang, and there was still floating dust weather on the 20th. The visibility of Korla city was obviously reduced due to sandstorm, which adversely affected road traffic. At the same time, due to the invasion of strong cold air, the local minimum temperature has also dropped to -14℃. The meteorological department predicts that the dusty weather will continue to affect Korla on the 21st, reminding residents to prepare for wind and sand prevention, and pay attention to carrying dust-proof articles such as masks and scarves when traveling.
Qiemo County is also affected by the windy and dusty weather. Strong dust caused the road visibility to drop to less than 10 meters, which seriously affected road traffic. The local traffic police department quickly launched an emergency response, responded to the dusty weather by strengthening vehicle guidance, strengthening patrol control and other measures, and prepared emergency items such as water and food to provide material support for stranded vehicles and personnel. Up to now, the dusty weather in Qiemo County has ended and it has turned into snowfall.
Xuzhou, Jiangsu: Suining suffered freezing rain with a precipitation of 12.4 mm.
Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province is an important transportation hub in China. Xuzhou is also one of the earliest affected areas in Jiangsu Province in this cold wave weather.
Since yesterday (20th), strong winds and rainy weather have started to appear in the local area.
Headquarters reporter Mao Jun:Freezing rain began to fall in Xuzhou, Jiangsu from around 4 pm on the 20th. In Xuzhou, the freezing rain continued until late at night, and the urban road surface was already white. At present, a major feature of the cooling weather is the interweaving of rain and snow. Although there is no obvious snowfall in Xuzhou, due to the high humidity and low temperature of freezing rain, about one to two centimeters of ice has appeared on urban roads.
Xuzhou Education Bureau requested that kindergartens, primary schools and junior high schools in the city be closed for one day on February 21st.
