{"id":13625,"date":"2014-02-07T06:38:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T22:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=13625"},"modified":"2014-02-27T00:21:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T16:21:23","slug":"today-first-snowfall-of-2014-hits-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/today-first-snowfall-of-2014-hits-beijing","title":{"rendered":"Today first snowfall of 2014 hits Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Untill Feb 6,\u00a0 2014, there had\u00a0been\u00a0no\u00a0significant rain drop nor snowfall\u00a0in\u00a0the past consective\u00a0107 days for most of Beijing area (downtown Beijing in particular). Though there was scattered snow in some regions on Jan 04,2014, the snow was too small to be felt by people.<\/p>\n

Today\u00a0\u00a0Beijing\u00a0sees its first significant snowfall starting at March 07, 2014. It is a long expected snowfall though the snow fall comes too late, which will cause much trouble to holiday makers on their routes who are heading back to their working units and farewell to their family reunions.<\/p>\n

No rain nor snow for the past 107 days,\u00a0 the \u00a0dry city\u00a0of Beijing has serously\u00a0affected\u00a0the local people’ life:\u00a0\u00a0more\u00a0 dry weather related diseases,\u00a0 dry face\u00a0 and more.\u00a0 Of course, the snow will add much difficulty to those on their return journey after Spring Festival.<\/p>\n

Today the weathermen predict that the snow will come down around 2:00am. So now I’m excited to wait for the first snowflakes falling in Beijing.<\/p>\n

Around 2:00am,\u00a0 I put on my down jacket, leaving my warm appartment and go\u00a0 down using the elevator, trying to catch\u00a0 the snowflakes flying and dancing in the air.\u00a0 But I fail to find any snow.\u00a0 Disappointed, I have to go to bed for the possible early morning snow.<\/p>\n

Wake up at 5:45, I quickly get up and put on my winter down jacket and go down by elevator with my iphone. Wow! What a white snow world! It is still snowing,\u00a0as\u00a0if white sands pouring from the sky to the ground, blanketing the dirty with facinating white thin silk.<\/p>\n

The pictures below shot with my iphones of the surrounding area in my community between 5:54am and 6:11am.<\/p>\n

Photos taken time: \u00a05:54am and 6:11am.<\/p>\n

\"Firs<\/a>
Firs snowfall Beijing on Feb ,07,2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"My<\/a>
My handprint left on the first snow on February 7, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Footprints<\/a>
Footprints and bike tire prints left by early risers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"It<\/a>
It is still snowing at the time of pictures taking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Tiananmen<\/a>
Tiananmen Square in the snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The snow covered Forbidden City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Driving<\/a>
Driving in defiance of snowing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Untill Feb 6,\u00a0 2014, there had\u00a0been\u00a0no\u00a0significant rain drop nor snowfall\u00a0in\u00a0the past consective\u00a0107 days for most of Beijing area (downtown Beijing in particular). Though there was scattered snow in some regions on Jan 04,2014, the snow was too small to be felt by people. Today\u00a0\u00a0Beijing\u00a0sees its first significant snowfall starting at March 07, 2014. It is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-travel","category-beijing-weather","category-beijing-winter-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13872,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625\/revisions\/13872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}