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Icy road warning lifted for city as driving condition improves

By Jessie Dong | February 1, 2016, Monday | Online Edition

CITY'S road authority has lifted the icy road warning for drivers at 11am today, indicating an improving driving condition.

Sleet started hitting the city since yesterday afternoon.

By 8:20pm, most of the city saw between 1 and 4 millimeters of rain and snow. Suburban Jinshan District was hit with 4.4 millimeters of precipitation. The Shanghai Meteorological Bureau issued a yellow road-ice-warning‚ the lowest of the city’s three-color alert system‚ at 7:06pm last night because of the possibility of ice forming on the streets within 12 hours.

By 10pm last night, speed control measures had been implemented in anticipation of icy conditions on expressways and bridges, and salt was scattered on Lupu Bridge at 9.15pm to melt snow.

Traffic police said totally 1,118 traffic accidents were reported during midnight and 9am today, mostly minor collisions and causing no casualties. The number of accidents slightly rose from usual average, police said.

By 11am today, traffic condition on all local streets was 'normal' and the icy road warning was lifted.

No snow is expected tomorrow, but the temperature is forecast to dip down to zero.

It will begin to warm up on Wednesday, say forecasters, with a low of 1 degree and a high of 6. The warming trend will continue on Thursday with some drizzle expected.

Higher temperatures are expected by Friday, with the mercury fluctuating between 3 and 8 degrees, and the skies clearing.

Thursday is known as Lichun, or spring begins, the first solar term of the year. It signifies the beginning of spring, when eastern winds begin to melt ice and hibernating insects wake up.

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