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(Dan Tri) – The China Meteorological Center issued a yellow warning about snowstorms in the capital Beijing, as the North prepares for new snowstorms this week.
Snow covered the Palace Museum in Beijing early this week (Photo: Xinhua News Agency).
Experts say climate change may have caused extreme weather and weather conditions that could pose risks to infrastructure in China.
From December 12, China’s National Meteorological Center warned that a blizzard would hit the north of the country from December 13 to December 15, when a cold wave swept across the entire country.
According to the center, minimum temperatures in parts of northern China `will approach or fall below the extreme levels of the same period in history`.
A day earlier, according to the center’s announcement, temperatures in central and eastern China will continue to decrease after mid-December. The warning clearly stated: another cold wave will cause temperatures to stay below zero.
Beijing issued a blue cold warning – the lowest level in China’s four-level warning system – on the afternoon of December 12, saying the minimum temperature in the capital will drop more than 10 degrees Celsius from December 15.
The Beijing Meteorological Administration also issued a level 3 yellow warning for the snowstorm.
Snow has fallen in some areas of northern China since December 10, causing great impact on the traffic system.
The main airport in Zhengzhou, Henan province, closed because of icy runways.
The cold spell and snowstorm reported in this warning are the latest in a series of severe weather phenomena in northern China this year.
In June, some cities fell into a sweltering situation when recording a record number of days with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in the month.
Climate expert Shao Sun at the University of California, Irvine (USA) said the increasing frequency of extreme events reflects increasing instability in the climate system.
`The occurrence of severe cold waves is not inconsistent with global warming,` it said, adding that the rapid warming of the Arctic Circle over the past three decades has weakened the polar vortex, causing
Sun warned that northern China could be `hardest hit` by December’s cold spell, posing risks to agriculture, infrastructure, buildings and industries such as fishing and mining.
Ma Jun, China’s leading environmentalist and founding director of the Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, emphasized the threat of extreme weather to safety.
Last month, heavy snowfall collapsed the roof of a gym in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, killing three students.
At the end of November, at the opening of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, the World Meteorological Organization declared 2023 to be the hottest year in recorded human history, and emphasized that the El Nino phenomenon has