Today (Sunday) Beijing has been hit by the early winter snowfall and sleet after yesterday’s fog and rain caused by a cold front in northern China. It is quite rare in Beijing to be lashed with freezing rain and snowfall three days before the coming of Li Dong (Winter begins), the 19th solar term of…
Today, Jan 21, 2012 is the coldest day in Beijing even since it has entered winter with today’s highest temperture -2 and lowest -12. Beijingers and visitors will be very lucky that Beijing enjoys good weather during the coming spring festival as below: Beijing weather forecast for the week long Holiday for Chinese new year: 2012 Jan 21: Sunny, highest –…
If you plan a Beijing tour during the Chinese new year, you would have an opportunity to see how Chinese people spend their new year. Chinese new year or Spring Festival gives Chinese people a week-long holiday, this year from Jan 22, the new year’s eve to Jan 29, 2012. This Chinese new year is coming…
Fruit picking in Beijing has become more and more popular with the improvement in ordinary people’s living standards. Of a rich variety of fruits picking, Beijing strawberry picking tops the fruit picking list, the only fruit picking in Beijing which people could experience in winter. The strawberry picking period lasts from late December till next June in Beijing. Strawberries are an easy…
A lively Beijing winter! Today is January 07 and Beijing greets its first snowfall for 2012. At 7:30am as usual I start my 20-minite routine walk to my office. Out on our living block garden, I’m really surprised at the snowflakes flying and dancing in the air, small and white. So I take the lift up back to my flat and…
Plan your Beijing winter tour? The 2011-2012 snow is in! At 7:30am I get up with a little pleasant surprise at the small snow flakes blanketing the roofs and gardens here and there in our blocks. It has snowed and is still snowing! No any snow weather broadcast yesterday. This is the first snow for the 2011-2012 winter,…
Waked up by the shovels and besoms outside around 7:20am, stumble to the window, open the curtain, yes, as expected the outside world has been coated with light snow, the third snowfall in Beijing 2011 precisely broadcasted by the weatherman yesterday. Some of the residents in our housing area are volutearly cleaning the snow with shovels…
At 7:00am this morning, I’m still a little surprised to find that our residential block has been white blanketed by a light snow, though I did get the snow broadcast yesterday. It is the first snowfall in Beijing for the new year 2011! In addition, it has been the latest first snow in Beijing in a year for the past 60 years!!…