BEIJING: Temperatures in northern China are set to plunge as much as 20 degrees Celsius after summer-like conditions in the final days of autumn, state forecasters said on Friday (Nov 3), extending a year-long trend of unusual swings in the weather.
A stream of cold air entering China on Saturday from the northwest will join with another that had already arrived on Thursday to cause a sharp drop in temperatures, the National Meteorological Administration (CMA) said.
Temperatures in the small towns, deserts and grasslands of the northern Inner Mongolia region could fall as much as 10 degrees Celsius on Friday and a further 10 degrees Celsius on Saturday. Blizzards could hit Xinjiang in China’s arid northwest.
From next week, most of the northeast is expected to see daily maximum temperatures dive to the single digits or even below freezing as cold air masses move east and south, in an abrupt reversal of the recent “big warming”, according to CMA.
While cold and freezing temperatures in these regions are not atypical for the time of year, the sudden change is unusual, and resulted from the uncharacteristically warm weather recorded in late October to early November.
Source: CNA
