[英语阅读]大雪寒风 京城半世纪最低温
来源:互联网 发布:现在下片用什么软件 编辑:程序博客网 时间:2024/05/01 23:52
Big chill causes chaos
1月3日北京迎来几十年来最大的一次降雪,昌平区长城附近积雪厚达20厘米。此次大雪导致多条高速封路、数千旅客滞留机场,北京和天津两地的中小学1月4日停课一天。据气象部门预报,今明两天北京的气温将降至零下16摄氏度,为50年以来最低气温。首都国际机场90%以上的航班都被取消或长期延误,天津、呼和浩特及大连机场部分关闭,多条进京高速公路都采取封路或限制通行措施,不过,铁路交通运行未受影响。
A security guard shovels snow to make a path in front of a snowman on Beijing's Tiananmen Square January 3, 2010.
Beijing faces lowest temperature in half a century; schools closed today.
The heaviest snow to hit North China in decades caused widespread chaos on roads and left tens of thousands of passengers stranded at airports yesterday - but worse is forecast for today and tomorrow.
Temperatures are forecast to drop to -16 C in Beijing, the lowest in half a century, when work resumes after a three-day New Year holiday.
The severe weather forced thousands of primary and high schools to suspend classes today.
The authorities in Beijing and Tianjin announced yesterday that classes in the two cities' 3,500 primary and high schools will be suspended, affecting more than 2.2 million students.
Yesterday's snowfall forced the full or partial closure of airports in Beijing, Tianjin, Hohhot and Dalian, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded.
More than 90 percent of flights at Beijing Capital International Airport, the country's busiest, were cancelled or severely delayed, with only one of the three runways open at one point.
The snow forced cars to less than 40 km-per-hour on the usually bustling freeway from the airport into town. Vehicles slowed to a crawl on city roads, navigating slushy snow.
Many of the expressways connecting Beijing with other cities were shut down or had restricted Access, with several centimeters of snow blanketing roads.
Long-distance bus travel in North China was hampered by the weather, but the nation's rail system was operating normally, reports said.
Sun Hongtao, a teacher at Beijing Wanshousi Primary School, said: "I was quite surprised to hear classes will be suspended because it is very rare. As far as I remember, we only did it during the SARS outbreak in 2003."
The Central Meteorological Station (CMS) yesterday morning extended the warning of a strong cold spell and snowstorms by issuing an orange alert, the second-highest level.
Temperatures are set to fall by 8 to 12 C in central and western Inner Mongolia, eastern parts of Northwest China, North China, Guizhou and Chongqing, according to the CMS.
Temperatures in parts of Inner Mongolia and northern parts of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces might plunge by 14 to 18 C, it said.
The lowest temperature in the northwestern region of Heilongjiang province will hit 36 C below zero this morning, the national forecaster said.
The national and 23 provincial and municipal meteorological departments have been ordered to be on high alert and closely monitor the cold currents and snowstorms, Xinhua reported yesterday.
"With the capital blanketed in heavy snow, the temperature in Beijing is expected to hit the lowest in half a century with the minimum reaching 16 C below zero," Guo Hu, head of the Beijing meteorological bureau, said yesterday.
Upward of 20 cm of snowfall was recorded in the suburbs of Beijing's Changping district near the Great Wall.
The freezing cold will last for three days at least, Guo said.
"I don't remember ever seeing such heavy snowfall in the city. I am wondering about tomorrow's traffic, as snow has blanketed roads," said a local resident surnamed Zhou in her 30s yesterday.
The city government has mobilized 300,000 people to clear the snow.
- [英语阅读]大雪寒风 京城半世纪最低温
- [英语阅读]大雪来袭 英国城市生活瘫痪
- 最新津京城际列车
- 大雪
- 大雪
- [英语阅读]退休后去哪里?澳洲最受青睐
- [英语阅读]联合国称北京是全球最平等城市
- [英语阅读]全球最便宜汽车印度亮相
- [英语阅读]匈牙利评选最美“整容小姐”
- [英语阅读]最坚固的伞:防雨又防抢
- [英语阅读]美女总理摘最性感领导人桂
- [英语阅读]新西兰获评全球最清廉国家
- [英语阅读]中国崛起成10年来最受关注新闻
- [英语阅读]青少年网络搜索 “性”主题最热
- 英语阅读
- 英语阅读
- 强降雪袭击日本 东京遭遇45年来最大雪
- [英语阅读]欧洲城市之最:伦敦最脏 巴黎最不友好
- 《谈谈方法》这本小书篇幅很短,然而想说的却很多
- 确定组织是否真正敏捷的五种方法
- 利用ssh-keygen生成密钥对
- [英语阅读]“裸体扫描” full-body scanning
- 天涯人脉通讯录 - 面向对象设计草图
- [英语阅读]大雪寒风 京城半世纪最低温
- 海归如何避免水土不服?
- 一个带CheckBox的树形目录的递归算法(javascript)
- 【转】Gtk与Qt编译环境安装与配置
- D-Bus体系系列
- 职场“老好人”生存法则
- zthread库类型总结
- 双模手机介绍:什么是双模手机?
- MFC学习笔记基础